The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 Paperback by Robert Smigel

Product Details

• Publisher: Fantagraphics (2020-07-07)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781683963271
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

In this volume of the classic comic strip, created by Charles Schulz himself, Snoopy’s family suddenly expands, adding wandering brother Spike, beloved sister Belle, and even a nephew! 

Snoopy breaks his foot and spends six weeks in a cast, deals with an ailing Woodstock, and even gets involved in Linus; love triangle. This book features several benchmark storylines, including a rare "double track" sequence with two parallel narratives: Peppermint Patty competes in a Powderpuff Derby while Charlie Brown finally meets his baseball-playing idol, Joe Shlabotnik. There are obedience school fiascos, waterbed dilemmas, and Marcie's unwanted suitor. And find out the final fate of the talking schoolhouse building! Foreword by writer and comedian Robert Smigel.

About the Author

Robert Smigel is an American actor, humorist, comedian and writer known for his Saturday Night Live "TV Funhouse" cartoon shorts and as the puppeteer and voice behind Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. He lives in NY.

Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922, in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google). His ambition from a young age was to be a cartoonist and his first success was selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post between 1948 and 1950. He also sold a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit.

He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates and in the spring of 1950, United Feature Syndicate expressed interest in Li'l Folks. They bought the strip, renaming it Peanuts, a title Schulz always loathed. The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952. Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day-and the day before his last strip was published, having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand — an unmatched achievement in comics.