The Complete Peanuts 1959-1960 Volume 5
- 15 Oct 2009
- 9781847671493
- £20
- 320 pp
- 217×172mm
In a few words
With an introduction by Russell T. Davies
One of the finest cultural artifacts made in the 20th century.
Russell T. Davies
Peanuts was, and is, and will continue to be the finest comic in the world. Bravo.
Ray Bradbury
More about
the book
As Peanuts concludes its first decade, a new character makes her appearance: Charlie Brown’s little sister Sally. This volume covers her earliest days, from her proud brother’s announcement of her birth to her first words (and crush on Linus)!
Also: the initial ‘Great Pumpkin’ sequence; Lucy’s first appearance as a nickel psychiatrist; Linus’s short-lived and one-sided romance with his beloved teacher Miss Othmar; and Snoopy’s battle with the doghouse-destroying freeway bypass. All this, plus two of the most famous Peanuts strips of all time: the ‘clouds’ Sunday that Schulz cites as his personal favourite and ‘Happiness is a warm puppy’.
The world of Peanuts is a microcosm, a little human comedy for the innocent reader and for the sophisticated.
Umberto Eco
As powerful a comic art-piece as anything out today . . . will delight Peanuts aficionados.
Beautifully designed ... One of the high-water marks of post-war popular culture.
All sorts of important writers have marveled at the glorious simplicity of [Schulz's] draftsmanship and his unerring jokecraft, all underpinned by a quiet melancholy and stoicism . . . by some miracle, the entire Peanuts oeuvre is gradually being republished in this country, by Canongate . . . in lavishly appointed hardback . . . Unlike almost everything you read as a child, they are actually better than you remember them.
Charles M. Schulz
View profileCharles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.
