Fantagraphics Books Inc.
Available: 09/15/06
8.50 x 7 · 344 pages
978-1-56097-672-1
CDN $31.95 · cl

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The Complete Peanuts 1961 to 1962

The Definitive Collection of Charles M. Schulz’s Comic Strip Masterpiece, Dailies & Sundays

Charles M. Schulz

introduction by Diana Krall

The popular series that launched a comic strip renaissance enters its second decade. Schulz adds another new cast member; two, in fact: the obnoxious Frieda of “naturally curly hair” fame and her inert, seemingly boneless cat Faron.

The rapidly maturing Sally, who was just born in the previous volume, is ready to start kindergarten and not at all happy about it. Lucy and Linus’ war over the security blanket escalates, with Lucy burying it, cutting it apart, and turning it into a kite and allowing it to fly away. Linus is forced to wear glasses, sees the unexpected return of his favourite teacher and coaxes Sally into the cult of the Great Pumpkin.

Snoopy, meanwhile, becomes a compulsive sprinkler-head stander, unhappily befriends a snowman or two and endures a family crisis involving a little family of birds. And in one of the strangest continuities in the history of Peanuts, the Van Pelt parents become obsessed with a tangerine-coloured pool table!

And with Schroeder on the cover, it’s entirely fitting that well-known jazz singer-songwriter Diana Krall writes the introduction.

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, California, where his widow, Jean, is president.