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The Complete Peanuts

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1sdawson
Modifié : Oct 31, 2014, 7:06 pm

Just because I think we could use a thread about this series.

I just received book 22 of this (eventual) 25 book series, covering all 50 years of Peanuts.

Observations: The number of Library Thing members who collect the books is drastically dwindling. Book 1 (1950-1952) has 747 members claiming ownership. I'll ignore book 22 as it just came out. But Book 20 (1989-1990) was down to 55. and book 21 (1991-1992) is down to 25.

I sure appreciate that Fantagraphics has committed to producing this complete set, and expect that the 2nd half of the years have much smaller print runs.

My worst nightmare: not having the last three books published!

As I was born in 1963 -- I grew up reading the paperback books which reprinted the 1950's and 1960's collections. I believe that the prime years of this strip were in the 60's and early 70's. But the body of work is amazing as a whole.

On a personal note. I recall the Saturday that Charles Schulz died. He had announced his retirement shortly before that. I also recall reading his very last strip which was published the following Sunday. On the Monday after that, I visited my dad in the morning and we talked about several things, including Charles Shulz. I left him to go to work, and three hours later received a call that my dad had just died at work. He was 63 and this was unexpected.

These 4 events (Charles Schulz death, his last strip, my last conversation with my dad, and his death) are all intermingled now.

-Shawn

2artturnerjr
Nov 2, 2014, 7:14 pm

Peanuts really was a pretty brilliant strip. I think its surface simplicity of the work and the characters' cultural ubiquity tend to kind to blind us to the sophistication of what Schulz was doing there. Reminds me of something Neil Gaiman once said about the great speculative fiction writer Michael Moorcock: "When people ask me about my influences, I tend to forget Mike, much in the way that people listing the things that were important to them growing up, fail to list the earth, the air, and sunlight."

3guido47
Modifié : Nov 3, 2014, 5:54 am

I have some early Peanuts books before we got the boring Snoopy on his dog House phase. Schultz was good then...
Thus although I do enjoy getting COMPLETE series, (currently Carl Barks and Walt Kelly) I doubt I will ever get the Complete Peanuts. Too many years of "sell out"!

Hey, I too programmed a Calender of Snoopy on the dog house (Fortran II - no arrays) But... that was in the early 1970's.

4sdawson
Mai 11, 2016, 4:39 pm

The 25th and final book of this remarkable series arrived today. 12 year commitment by Fantagraphics is remarkable. Congratulations to them, and thanks for making this available to those of us who grew up with Schulz!

5AnnieMod
Mai 11, 2016, 5:20 pm

>4 sdawson:

They seem to be doing a lot of great stuff like that - had been one of my favorite publishers for a very long time. And that is a marvelous achievement.

On a partly unrelated note - being a comics and comic strips fan these days is so different from even 10 years ago - everything is getting collected and reprinted. :)

6sdawson
Mai 11, 2016, 5:53 pm

>5 AnnieMod:

Agreed. Back in the 80's, I cut out each daily Peanuts strip and pasted them into binders. I now have several of these floating around the house. These collect hundreds (over a thousand? I don't really know) of the strips from the 80's. They aren't pretty, and are now redundant by this collection.

However, my now 4th grade granddaughter has been reading my home-made collection since 1st grade and quite enjoys them. Just this morning, she asked me where one of the books was so she could take it on the bus.

She knows the characters and plot lines, and mentions them in passing, references which only she and I get, as the other family members haven't read them.

-shawn