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Zusammenfassung In this fourth paperback volume! the 1950s close down and Peanuts enters its golden age. Linus! who had just learned to speak in the previous volume! becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucyâ??s bullying; even so! his neurosis becomes more pronounced! including a harrowing two-week â?oLost Weekendâ? sequence of blanketlessness. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom! with spectacularly lost kites! humiliating baseball losses (including one where he becomes â?othe Goatâ? and is driven from the field in a chorus of BAAAAHs); at least his newly acquired â?opencil palâ? affords him some comfort. But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. Heâ??s at the center of the most graphically dynamic and action-packed episodes (the ones in which he attempts to grab Linusâ??s blanket at a dead run)! and even tentatively tries to sleep on the crest of his doghouse roof once or twice! with mixed results.
About the author
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.
