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At the start of the 1960s, Schulz had entered into a satisfying routine of putting his beloved characters through their annual paces. Charlie Brown's baseball team went down to perpetual defeat in the summer, Linus vainly awaited the Great Pumpkin and Lucy pulled the football in the fall, and Schroeder celebrated Beethoven's birthday in the winter. These strips introduce Frieda, the girl with "naturally curly hair," sadly destined to remain a second-stringer, and for a brief period in them, Linus sports eyeglasses. Singer Diana Krall contributes a heartfelt introduction. Gordon Flagg
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'... as powerful a comic art-piece as anything out today... will delight Peanuts aficionados.' Observer
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A dream-come-true for Charlie Brown afficionados,
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Ce commentaire est de: The Complete Peanuts Volume 6: 1961-1962 (Hardcover)
If you grew up on Charlie Brown (and who didn't?) and bought the paperback books and reread them a hundred times, this is the series you've been waiting for. I have all the books that have been published so far from 1950 to 1970 something. Every original comic strip (including Sunday features) is included in an attractive, incredibly well-bound format. It is very clear to me that a lot of heart and care has gone into the making of this collection. Each book has an introduction from "celebrities" such as Whoopi Goldberg, Walter Cronkite, Matt Groening, Garrison Keillor sharing the impact of Charles Schulz's characters and creativity in their life. There is also an in-depth account of Schulz's own influences and life events reprinted at the end of each book. The size of the book is also well designed. Each thick book contains two years of comic strips, but is still easy to hold and read. What a gift I gave myself when I bought these! And the editors plan to keep on going until they reach the year 2000 and the whole body of Sparky Schulz's work is in our eager little hands to savour forever.
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The Masterwork At Its Height,
By John D. Cofield - Published on Amazon.com
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Ce commentaire est de: The Complete Peanuts Volume 6: 1961-1962 (Hardcover)
Here we have Charles M. Schulz at his height. The Peanuts world is almost complete, with the main caste of characters set: Charlie Brown the neurotic, Linus the philosopher, Lucy the loudmouth, and Snoopy the . . . well, Snoopy. Other characters include the original Shermy, Violet, and Patty, who are beginning to fade away, Schroeder, who is playing Beethoven with ever greater intensity, and little Sally, who must have had one of the fastest infancies in history! The newest character is Frieda with the naturally curly hair. Frieda caused one of Schulz's few missteps, when he had her introduce a cat (which he then realized, too late, that he couldn't draw) which made Snoopy act too much like a real dog. Fortunately Schulz realized the problem right away, and Faron the cat only appears in a few strips.The old standbys are here: the Great Pumpkin, Lucy and the football, the hapless baseball team, and Snoopy's rich fantasy life. I also enjoyed the random references to American life in the early 1960s: especially an eerie strip from 1962 in which the kids speculate on the possibility of the Bomb dropping, with Lucy screaming "Don't Say It!" Schulz could not have known that that October the world would come closer than ever before or since to nuclear holocaust, so this is further evidence that Peanuts' popularity stems from its links, conscious and unconscious, to our own inner lives and fears. Its hard to wait six months or so between volumes in this series, but we can endure it in happy anticipation of the advent of treasures yet to be revealed, such as the first time Snoopy climbs into that Sopwith Camel 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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SCHULZ AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS CREATIVE GENIUS!,
By Tim Janson - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: The Complete Peanuts Volume 6: 1961-1962 (Hardcover)
When I was a kid, I used to go with my Mom almost every Saturday to the local Montgomery Ward department store. While she's be looking at clothes, I'd be in the book section checking out the B.C. or Peanuts paperbacks. She bought me one every time we went and I had dozens of them. Now, over 30 years later, I remember these strips like I had just read them last week. It's amazing how much you can recall something you really loved after so many years. To me, this is the beginning of the height of Schulz's work on the strip. The character's looks and personalities have totally matured into what we know them best as today.Jazz superstar Diana Krall kicks off this volume with her introduction and her reminiscences closely mirror my own, and I suspect many others as well. This volume opens with Lucy burying Linus' blanket in a hidden spot, hoping to cure him of the habit of carrying it around. On one hand, this is monumentally callous of Lucy, and yet it also shows the tough love she has for her little brother. I'm sure I didn't understand this 30 years ago. Snoopy saves the day by digging up the hidden treasure, much to his glee and Lucy's consternation. The memories flooded back as I read these strips for the first time in over three decades, and yet they were still as fresh, still as funny as ever. No Woodstock yet, but that doesn't stop Snoopy from entertaining many other birds on the roof of his doghouse. And of course Snoopy's imagination is in high gear as he imagines himself as a fierce, jungle prowling cat, a swinging gorilla, and even a cow. There's also a slew of topical references such as Charlie bemoaning that Willy McCovey didn't hit the ball three feet higher. Classic! Interestingly, it is Linus, and not Charlie Brown who suffers from Pantophobia (the fear of everything) as he visits Lucy's psychiatric help booth. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" uses the strip almost word for word except for Linus being the patient instead of Charlie Brown. My favorite strips were always the holiday ones and this volume doesn't disappoint with Linus writing to the Great Pumpkin and doing his best to find the most sincere pumpkin patch to wait for his arrival. In the strips from 1962, we again see where these are some of the strips that were used for "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" Specifically where Sally screams at Linus and demands restitution for missing out on trick or treating as she spent the night with him in the pumpkin patch. We again see a character switch from strip to cartoon as it's Lucy and not Sally who asks Santa Claus to bring her "Tens and Twenties". This was simply a delight for me to read and just serves to prove how good Schulz really was... Reviewed by Tim Janson 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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How consistant can you get?,
By Johnny Heering "trivia buff" - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: The Complete Peanuts Volume 6: 1961-1962 (Hardcover)
This volume of The Complete Peanuts cover the years 1961 and 1962 in their entireties. The most noteworthy event of this book is the introduction of Frieda, the girl with the "naturally curly hair". Soon after her debut, the running gag where Frieda tries to get Snoopy to chase rabbits is used for the first time. Also introduced at this time was Frieda's cat Faron, who only made a few appearances before disappearing. Many of the jokes from this volume were later used in Peanuts television specials, most notably the Christmas and Halloween specials. Peanuts was one of the greatest comic strips of all time, and 1961 and 1962 are certainly among it's best years. Highly recommended.
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