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PUBLICATION DATE: NOVEMBER 16TH, 2005
THE COMPLETE PEANUTS
1957-1958
BY CHARLES M. SCHULZ
$28.95
Humor / COMIC STRIPS
344 pages, black-and-white, 8 ˝” x 7”
Hardcover, ISBN 1-56097-686-1
Introduction by Jonathan Franzen
Amongst the top ten favorite and familiar media properties in the world
Over 350 million Peanuts books sold worldwide
Over 200,000 copies sold in this series
This is the first comprehensive collection of every strip ever created by Schulz
Advance Reading Copies
THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING SERIES CONTINUES!
“As essential as pop texts get.” — The Onion
As the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak in the previous volume, becomes downright eloquent and even begins to fend off Lucy’s bullying; even so, his security neurosis becomes more pronounced, including a harrowing two-week “Lost Weekend” sequence of blanketlessness. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom, with spectacularly lost kites, humiliating baseball losses (including one where he becomes “the Goat” and is driven from the field in a chorus of BAAAAHs); at least his newly acquired “pencil pal” affords him some comfort. Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, and Patty are also around, as is an increasingly Beethoven-fixated Schroeder.
But the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. He’s at the center of the most graphically dynamic and actionpacked episodes (the ones in which he attempts to grab Linus’s blanket at a dead run). He even tentatively tries to sleep on the crest of his doghouse roof once or twice, with mixed results. And his imitations continue apace, including penguins, anteaters, sea monsters, vultures and (much to her chagrin) Lucy. No wonder the beagle is the cover star not only of this volume, but of the collector’s slipcase (see next spread).
And coming up in the next volume… a baby girl named Sally!
CHARLES M. SCHULZ was born in 1922 and passed away in 2000. His work lives on at the Charles M.
Schulz Museum & Research Center in Santa Rosa, CA, where his widow, Jean, is president.
ALSO AVAILABLE: (EACH VOLUME IS THE SAME PRICE AND FORMAT AS 1957-1958):
1950-1952 (Introduction by Garrison Keillor, 360 pp.), ISBN 1-56097-589-X 1953-1954 (Introduction by Walter Cronkite, 346 pp.), ISBN 1-56097-614-4 1955-1956 (Introduction by Matt Groening, 346 pp.), ISBN 1-56097-647-0
ALSO AVAILABLE: (EACH VOLUME IS THE SAME PRICE AND FORMAT AS 1957-1958):