The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972: Vol. 11 Hardcover Edition

The Complete Peanuts 1971-1972: Vol. 11 Hardcover Edition

Product DescriptionThe Great Pumpkin of strip collections enters Schulz's most successful decade!Peanuts surges into the 1970s with Schulz at the peak of his powers and influence: a few jokes about Bob Dylan, Women?s Liberation and ?Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex? (!) aside, these two years are as timeless asPeanuts ever was. Sally Brown?school phobia, malapropisms, unrequited love for Linus and all?elbows her way to center stage, at least among the humans, and is thus the logical choice for cover girl... and in her honor, the introduction is provided by none other than Broadway, television and film star Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, Pushing Daisies), who first rose to Tony-winning fame with her scene-stealing performance as Sally inYou?re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Two long Summer-camp sequences involve Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty, who has decided that Charlie Brown is madly in love with her, much to his clueless confusion. Snoopy shows up at camp as well, as does Peppermint Patty?s new permanent sidekick, the one and only Marcie. The eternally mutable Snoopy mostly shakes off his World War I Flying Ace identity and turns into Joe Cool, college hipster extraordinaire. And in three long sequences he writes a fan letter to his favorite author, Miss Helen Sweetstory, then goes on a journey to meet her, and finally enlists Charlie Brown?s help when her latest opus,The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out, falls afoul of censors. Also, Woodstock attends worm school, falls in love with a worm (perhaps the most doomed unrequitedPeanuts love story ever!), and is nearly eaten by the neighbors? cat... Peppermint Patty is put on trial for another dress code violation and makes a very ill-advised choice in terms of lawyers... Snoopy turns Linus?s blanket into not one but two sportcoats... Lucy hits a home run...and the birth of one Rerun Van Pelt! 730 b/w comic stripsFrom BooklistSnoopy continues to dominate the proceedings in these 1971-72 installments of the classic strip as he bonds with new friend Woodstock, appears for the first time in the guise of Joe Cool, serves as Peppermint Patty?s attorney when she violates the school dress code, and has Linus? security blanket made into a sports coat. Also, Lucy and Linus welcome the arrival of baby brother Rerun. Actress Kristin Chenoweth contributes an introduction, in which she discusses her Tony-winning portrayal of Charlie Brown?s little sister Sally in the 1998 Broadway revival of You?re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. --Gordon FlaggReview"With elegant simplicity and deftly constructed shorts, the esteemed author captured so much of what life is about." -- Nik Mercer ?Anthem Magazine"A ?must have? for collectors of Charles Schulz?s work, highly recommended." -- James A. Cox ?Midwest Book Review"Sally gets the cover in this 11th volume ofThe Complete Peanuts... Schulz is still in top form here in my opinion. There are few books I laugh at more, or enjoy more thoroughly than these fine collections. Highly recommended!" -- Todd KleinAbout the AuthorCharles 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 stripBarney Google). In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course, and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937Ripley's Believe It or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to theSaturday Evening Post?as well as, to the localSt. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature calledLi'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. After writing and drawing the feature for two