Charles Schulz Appreciation Thread (Charlie Brown / Peanuts)

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I love Peanuts, but am much more familiar with the TV specials than the comics....what are the peak years for the comic strips? Do you have a favorite book in the Complete book series?

 

I would say any book between 1959 and 1970.

For a good “greatest hits” from that period, this is great.

Peanuts Treasury

 

Love Peanuts. Probably the most unique comic strip ever. Little kids with Woody Allen neurosis engaging in social satire while having existential crises. I have tons of the paperbacks bought both new and used back in the 70s.

Anyone remember the one where Lucy shows CB a slideshow of his life and he reacts with horror over and over? Like his very own Primal Scream therapy.

 

Snoopy seems to be the only animal that Schulz can draw*. The other dogs are just variations on Snoopy and none of them look quite right. I think he went on record as conceding that he couldn’t draw a cat.

*Okay, he came up with a cute bird.

 

Someone picked up a copy of the (hard cover) The Art Of Charles M Schulz (Pantheon, 2001) for me a few years ago. It has a neat 'signing' on the inside cover adds to the appeal of the volume.

 

It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown will be on ABC tonight.

 

I love the very early Peanuts strips from the first few years. I really need to collect some of the books.

 

There are a couple of Peanuts icon sets and wallpapers in Iconfactory's freeware section. Typing 'brown' in the search should bring them up.
The Iconfactory

 

Wow...are you sure Sparky didn't give her that tattoo?

 

My God, I used to have that same problem when I was a kid, I'm not kidding!

 

I saw "Charlie Brown's All Stars" exactly once, when it originally aired in 1966 or '67 and I haven't seen it repeated since then, though surely it must have been shown again SOME time!
I clearly remember multiple showings of all of the other specials in the 1970s, but never that one. Does anyone know why?

 

Mine wasn't. I originally had book club editions of this and "Peanuts Treasury" and had to replace "Classics" with a used copy of the regular edition after my nephew, who was 4 at the time, got ahold of it and scribbled it up with crayons. They have the same contents.

 

Yeah, his cats weren't good.

 

Is it sponsored by Dolly Madison's all kind of neat to eat treats?

 

I don't recall seeing it either as a kid, although Nickelodeon aired it when they had that Peanuts package in the '90s.

Also had the book and record set:

 

I read the David Michaelis book' "Schulz And Peanuts", Sparky was an extremely complex person and certainly (like most of us) had a darker side.

 

Or by your neighborhood Coca-Cola bottler?

 

I had all the hardback books for the original specials up to and including "Play It Again, Charlie Brown". After that, I didn't find most of the later specials as good as the earlier ones. The Thanksgiving one was good, though.

 

I'm old, but I ain't that old.

 

Poor Faron!
I always wondered whatever became of him.

 

He doesn't look like he'd be related to "that cat who lives next door."

 

As did Charlie Brown. Want to know what really happened to Shermy?