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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 "Marbles is introduced, Sally gets fat... plus baseball stories! Introduction by Lynn Johnston! Zusammenfassung The Complete Peanuts 1981-1982 ventures into the lesser-known 1980s strips. Spike is drafted into the Infantry (don't worry! it's only Snoopy's imaginary World War I army)! and a brand-new brother! "Marbles" (with the spotty ears) takes his bow. We also see two major baseball-oriented stories! one in which Charlie Brown joins Peppermint Patty's team! and another in which Charlie Brown and his team lose their baseball field. In other stories! Peppermint Patty witnesses the "butterfly miracle!" Linus protests that he is not Sally's "Sweet Babboo!" Sally (in an unrelated sequence) gets fat! the Van Pelts get into farming! and two of the most eccentric characters from later Peanuts years! the hyperaggressive Molly Volley and the whiny "Crybaby" Boobie! make a return engagement. ...
