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A biography in interviews of one of America's best-loved comic strip mastersThrough his comic stripPeanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) has left his signatures on American c...Read more
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| A biography in interviews of one of America's best-loved comic strip mastersThrough his comic stripPeanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) has left his signatures on American culture -- Lucy's fake hold for the kickoff, Linus's security blanket, Charlie Brown's baseball team that never wins a game, and his everyman's cry of "Good Grief!"When Schulz died February 13, 2000, the eve of publication for the last Sunday strip he would draw, the world mourned the passing of a gentle humorist and minimalist innovator, a comic strip artist who had become one of America's major pop philosophers, theologians, and psychologists in the last half of the twentieth century.Charles M. Schulz: Conversationsreveals that man, open and warm once a conversation began. During his career, his little kid characters and Snoopy and Woodstock appeared for 355 million readers in 2,600 papers in 75 countries, in 30 television specials and four feature films, and in an off-Broadway musical. Selected from over 300 interviews published between 1957 and the present, this collection serves as a celebration of the popular strip's 50th anniversary on October 2, 2000, and as a lasting tribute to the man friends called "Sparky."Schulz talks at length about life, theology, sports, the art of the comic strip, and the human condition in general. He ruminates as well on the origins and the importance of Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, and friends as icons of the American imagination. America's most universally admired and respected comic artist talks about how his own life and insecurities have inspired some of his finest moments in comic strip history.Until Schulz's retirement, he never missed a deadline and was totally responsible for writing, drawing, and lettering the feature every day, a record matched by no other cartoonist in newspaper history.Including dozens of classicPeanutsstrips, this volume suggests that if we had only one artifact for deposit in a time capsule, something to tell future historians what life in the late twentieth century was all about, we could do no better than to enclose a complete run ofPeanuts.M. Thomas Inge, a friend of Schulz's for many years, is Robert Emory Blackwell Professor of Humanities at Randolph-Macon College. He has authored or edited over 40 volumes, includingConversations with William Faulkner(University Press of Mississippi, 1999). A biography in interviews of one of Americaas best-loved comic strip masters With 94 illustrations, the gentle cartoonist who touched 350 million readers, whose Peanuts characters are household names talks about life, sports, theology, & the comic strip. | |
| Product Identifiers | |
| ISBN-10 | 1578063051 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781578063055 |
| Key Details | |
| Number Of Pages | 285 pages |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Publication Date | 2000-09-01 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | University Press of Mississippi |
| Additional Details | |
| Copyright Date | 2000 |
| Illustrated | Yes |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | 41.7 Oz |
| Height | 0.9 In. |
| Width | 6 In. |
| Length | 9 In. |
| Target Audience | |
| Group | Trade |
| Classification Method | |
| LCCN | 00-027339 |
| LC Classification Number | PN6727.S3Z4625 2000 |
| Dewey Decimal | 741.5/092 |
| Dewey Edition | 21 |
| Contributors | |
| Edited by | M. Thomas Inge |
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