{"id":912,"date":"2009-11-24T23:28:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2009-11-24T23:28:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T03:28:36","slug":"review-of-the-complete-peanuts-1973-to-1974-by-charles-m-schulz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Complete Peanuts: 1973 to 1974, by Charles M. Schulz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"complete_peanuts_7374\"The Complete Peanuts<\/p>\n

The Definitive Collection of Charles M. Schulz’s Comic Strip Masterpiece
\nDailies & Sundays
\n1973 to 1974<\/em><\/p>\n

by Charles M. Schulz
\nIntroduction by Billie Jean King<\/p>\n

Fantagraphics Books, 2009. 323 pages.<\/p>\n

It’s that time of year again. Every six months, Fantagraphics Books comes out with another two-year volume of their collection of the complete Peanuts comic strip, and every six months, I need to remind my readers how marvellous each new volume is.<\/p>\n

In the 1973-1974 collection, we have many wonderful classics of the strip. Charlie Brown almost meets his hero Joe Shlabotnik. Incredibly, Charlie Brown’s team wins a baseball game — but then has to forfeit because of gambling. Then he has his whole episode where he develops a rash like a baseball seam on the back of his head.<\/p>\n

Lucy continues to bewail the fate of being in love with a musician, poor thing. Sally continues to write reports with creative explanations. (Did you know that people who encourage vandalism are Evandalists?) Snoopy is still quite the athlete, and still does impressions. I loved the strip where he imitates a vulture — but stops, embarrassed, when Woodstock lands next to him and starts doing the same thing. <\/p>\n

Snoopy’s writing career is flourishing, or at least he is spending much energy pursuing it. His rejection letters achieve new heights. I love the way most of his works (filling only four panels, after all) are an elaborate set-up for a bad pun. Charles Schulz does a great job showing us how bad Snoopy’s writing is that way. For example: <\/p>\n

She wanted to live in Canada. He wanted to live in Mexico. Thus, they parted. Years later, when asked the reason, she replied simply, “I just didn’t like his latitude!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, so beautiful.<\/p>\n

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