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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 Woodstock makes his first appearance and Lucy declares herself a New Feminist in this latest volume in the definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's masterpieces, which contains reprints of all daily and Sunday strips from 1969 and 1970. In Charles Schulz's The Complete Peanuts 1969-1970 ,Woodstock makes his first appearance, Peppermint Patty runs afoul of herschool's dress code, Lucy declares herself a "New Feminist," and Snoopy returnsto the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm on a speaking engagement. Speaking of Snoopy, thisvolume falls under the sign of the Great Beagle, as three separate storylinesfocus on the mysterious sovereign of Beagledom. Lucy throws Schroeder's pianointo the maw of the kite-eating tree, with gruesome results... Miss Othmar goeson strike and Linus gets involved... Charlie Brown's baseball team has an actual(brief) winning streak... Snoopy's quest to compete in the Oakland ice skatingcompetition is thwarted by his inability to find a partner... Charlie Brown goesto a banquet to meet his hapless baseball hero Joe Shlabotnik... Snoopy is leftin the Van Pelt family's care as the Browns vacation... and the LittleRed-Haired Girl moves away. ...
