{"product_id":"the-complete-peanuts-1979-1980-paperback-by-charles-m-schulz-1","title":"The Complete Peanuts 1979-1980 Paperback by Charles M Schulz","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eFantagraphics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2021-07-27)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e320\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781683964407\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e368.55\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIt’s 1980, Charlie Brown… and Peppermint Patty is wearing corn-rows! Plus, a strange romance...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Schulz enters his fourth decade as the greatest cartoonist of his generation, and \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e remains as fresh and lively as it ever was.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n(How do we know it’s 1980? Well, for one thing Peppermint Patty gets herself those Bo-Derek-in-\u003ci\u003e10\u003c\/i\u003e cornrows — \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e’ timelessness occasionally shows a crack!)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThat said, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Peanuts 1979-1980\u003c\/i\u003e includes a number of classic storylines, including the month-long sequence in which an ill Charlie Brown is hospitalized (including a particularly spooky moment when he wonders if he’s died and nobody’s told him yet), and an especially eventful trek with Snoopy, Woodstock, and the scout troop (now including a little girl bird, Harriet). And Snoopy is still trying on identities left and right, including the “world-famous surveyor,” the “world-famous census taker,” and Blackjack Snoopy, the riverboat gambler.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn other extended stories, Snoopy launches an ill-fated airline (with Lucy as the agent, Linus as the luggage handler, and Marcie as what it was still OK then to call the stewardess)… Peppermint Patty responds to being leaked upon by a ceiling by hiring a lawyer (unfortunately, she again picks Snoopy)… plus one of the great, forgotten romances of \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e that will startle even long-time Peanuts connoisseurs: Peppermint Patty and…\u003cb\u003e“Pig-Pen”\u003c\/b\u003e?!\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles M. Schulz \u003c\/b\u003ewas 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 \u003ci\u003eBarney Google\u003c\/i\u003e). His ambition from a young age was to be a cartoonist and his first success was selling 17 cartoons to the \u003ci\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/i\u003e between 1948 and 1950. He also sold a weekly comic feature called \u003ci\u003eLi'l Folks\u003c\/i\u003e to the local \u003ci\u003eSt. Paul Pioneer Press\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates and in the spring of 1950, United Feature Syndicate expressed interest in \u003ci\u003eLi'l Folks\u003c\/i\u003e. They bought the strip, renaming it \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e, a title Schulz always loathed. The first \u003ci\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBroadcaster \u003cb\u003eAl Roker\u003c\/b\u003e is the weather anchor on NBC's \u003ci\u003eThe Today Show\u003c\/i\u003e and co-host of \u003ci\u003eWake Up with Al\u003c\/i\u003e on The Weather Channel. 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