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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 A gift set of the 13th and 14th Complete Peanuts volumes, in a handsome and durable slipcase. Zusammenfassung Collects the 13th and 14th volumes of The Complete Peanuts in a handsomeslipcase! with intros by SNL’s Robert Smigel and 30 Rock’s AlecBaldwin! The last of the recurring cast has fallen into place The CompletePeanuts 1975-1976 and The Complete Peanuts 1977-1978 In Vol. 13! we meetSnoopy’s extended family — including his brother Spike! Plus!PowderPuff Derbies! Linus’ love triangle! and more. Vol. 14 has anamazing profusion of hilariously distinctive new one- (or two-) shot characters!For instance! Molly Volley! Milo! the baseball team the “GooseEggs!” “Crybaby” Boobie! Milo! not to mention the continuing!thrilling adventures! sports competitions (and heartbreaks) of good ol’Charlie Brown and the gang! ...
