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The complete Peanuts 1953 to 1954

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Main Author:	Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000
Format:	Books Print Book Comic & Graphic Novel
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle, WA : New York : Fantagraphics Books ; Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2004.
Subjects:	Schulz, Charles M. > Peanuts. American wit and humor, Pictorial. Comic books, strips, etc.
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Item Description:	Includes index. "The definitive collection of Charles M. Schulz's comic strip masterpiece"--Dust jacket.
Physical Description:	xiii, 325 p. : ill. ; 18 x 22 cm.
ISBN:	1560976144
Author Notes:	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.