Snoopy's brother Spike and Peppermint Patty take starring roles in the latest collection for the years 1983 and 1984 of one of the world's most popular newspaper comic strips.
Snoopy's brother Spike and Peppermint Patty take starring roles in the latest collection for the years 1983 and 1984 of one of the world's most popular newspaper comic strips.
Each volume of The Complete Peanuts is designed by the award-winning cartoonist Seth and features impeccable production values; every single strip from Charles M. Schulz's 50-year American classic is reproduced better than ever before. This volume features strips from 1983 to 1984.
“"The seventeenth volume of . . . [The Compete Peanuts] is just as delightful as all the rest. Yes, the ink line of Charles Schulz is a little wobbly at times, but his humor is just as sharp as ever...if you want reading material that will make you smile and laugh it's hard to beat this series. And I'm continuing to admire the subtle and classy cover designs by Seth."”
The Complete Peanuts 1983-1984 is an excellent installment of an excellent series. ...Peanuts is a standalone achievement that deserves every accolade it has received. Fantagraphics' reprints have more than risen to the challenge of giving Peanuts the comprehensive editions it has long deserved. Stellar.--Eric Hoffman
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). 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 1937 Ripley's
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