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Informationen zum Autor Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922, in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google). His ambition from a young age was to be a cartoonist and his first success was selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post between 1948 and 1950. He also sold a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit. He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates and in the spring of 1950, United Feature Syndicate expressed interest in Li'l Folks. They bought the strip, renaming it Peanuts, a title Schulz always loathed. The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952. Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day-and the day before his last strip was published, having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand -- an unmatched achievement in comics. Klappentext Charles Schulz enters his fourth decade as the greatest cartoonist of his generation, and Peanuts remains as fresh and lively as it ever was. (How do we know it's 1980? Well, for one thing Peppermint Patty gets herself those Bo-Derek-in-"10" cornrows). Zusammenfassung The Complete Peanuts 1979-1980 includes a number of classicstorylines (and Peppermint Patty in cornrows?!)! including the month-longsequence in which an ill Charlie Brown is hospitalized (including a particularlyspooky moment when he wonders if he’s died and nobody’s told himyet)! and an especially eventful trek with Snoopy! Woodstock! and the ScoutTroop (now including a little girl bird! Harriet). Snoopy is still trying onidentities left and right! including the “world-famous surveyor!”the “world-famous census taker!” and Blackjack Snoopy! the riverboatgambler. In other extended stories! Snoopy launches an ill-fated airline (withLucy as the agent! Linus as the luggage handler! and Marcie as stewardess)...Peppermint Patty responds to being leaked upon by a ceiling by hiring a lawyer(unfortunately! she again picks Snoopy)... plus! one of the great! forgottenromances of Peanuts that will startle even long-time Peanuts connoisseurs: Peppermint Patty and...“Pig-Pen”?! ...
