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The Complete Peanuts 1995-1998 Gift Box Set

The Complete Peanuts 1995-1998 Gift Box Set

by Charles M. Schulz
Hardback
Publication Date: 26/10/2015

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Charlie Brown is asked to the Sweetheart Ball and Snoopy gets his driver's license in this gift set.
ISBN:
9781606998618
9781606998618
Category:
Graphic novels: literary & memoirs
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
26-10-2015
Language:
English
Publisher:
Fantagraphics Books
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
228.6x177.8x76.2mm
Weight:
2.03kg
Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe Schulz (1922 -2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known for his Peanuts comic strip. He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Dena and Carl Schulz. His nickname "Sparky" was given by his uncle, after the horse Spark Plug in the Barney Google comic strip. He attended St. Paul's Richard Gordon Elementary School, where he skipped two half-grades.

As a result, he was the youngest in his class when he attended St. Paul Central High years later, which may have been the reason why he was so shy and isolated as a young teenager. After his mother died in February, 1943, he was drafted into the army and sent to Camp Campbell in Kentucky. He was then shipped to Europe two years later to fight in World War II.

After leaving the United States Army in 1945, he took a job as an art teacher at Art Instruction Inc., which he attended before he was drafted. First published by Robert Ripley in his Ripley's Believe It or Not!, then in a series of chronicles, The Saturday Evening Post, his first regular comic strip, Li'l Folks was published in 1947 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. (It was in this strip that Charlie Brown first appeared, as well as a dog that looked much like Snoopy).

In 1950 he approached the United Features Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. This strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957-1959), but abandoned that strip due to the demands of the success of Peanuts.

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