The Complete Peanuts 1959 To 1960
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As the first decade of <em>Peanuts</em> closes, it seems only fittingto bid farewell to that halcyon decade with a cover starring Patty, oneof the original three Peanuts. Major new additions to classic <em>Peanuts</em>lore come fast and furious here. Snoopy begins to take up residenceatop his doghouse, and his repertoire of impressions increasesexponentially. Lucy sets up her booth and offers her first five-centpsychiatric counsel. (Her advice to a forlorn Charlie Brown: "Get overit.") For the very first time, Linus spends all night in the pumpkinpatch on his lonely vigil for the Great Pumpkin (although he lamentsthat he was a victim of "false doctrine," he's back 12 months later).Linus also gets into repeated, and visually explosive, scuffles with ablanket-stealing Snoopy, suffers the first depredations of hisblanket-hating grandmother, and falls in love with his new teacher MissOthmar. Even more importantly, several years after the last addition tothe cast ("Pig-Pen"), Charlie Brown's sister Sally makes her appearance—first as an (off-panel) brand new baby for Charlie to gush over, thenas a toddler and eventually a real, talking, thinking cast member. (Bythe end of this volume, she'll already start developing her crush onLinus.) All this, and one of the most famous <em>Peanuts</em> stripsever: "Happiness is a warm puppy." Almost one hundred of the 731 stripscollected in this volume (including many Sundays) have never beencollected in any book since their original release, with one hundredmore having been collected only once in relatively obscure and nowimpossible-to-find books; in other words, close to one quarter of thestrips have never been seen by anyone but the most avid <em>Peanuts</em> completists.<br /><br />The introduction is by comedienne extraordinaire Whoopi Goldberg, who reveals which <em>Peanuts</em>character she has tattooed on her body (and where)—as well as tellingof her meeting with "Sparky" Schulz, and her fascinating theory onSnoopy's brother Spike. As always, this volume is gorgeously designedby award-winning cartoonist Seth. <em>The Complete Peanuts</em>continues to receive national and international media attention for itssophisticated treatment of one of the 20th Century's defining Americanclassics.<br /><br />A 2007 Eisner Award winner: Best Archival Collection/Project: Strips; a 2007 Harvey Award winner: Best Domestic Reprint Project.
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