STAFF PICKS :: PEANUTS :: AUGUST 26, 2015
GOOD GRIEF, MORE PEANUTS! TP (VOLUME 3: 1952-1956) GOOD OL’ CHARLIE BROWN: A NEW PEANUTS BOOK TP (VOLUME 4: 1955-1957)
God bless Titan Books for reproducing these two paperback gems from the late 1950’s!
Hey kids, back in the day before man stepped on the moon and simple folk only needed 3 or 4 TV Channels this is the way we got our comic strip reprints. every family–and I mean every single household (don’t bother looking it up, I’ve already fact checked it for you!) had at least one or two of these Peanuts reprint books in their rec rooms. They are gems, they are dirt cheap and trust me yet again, theywill make incredibly cool stocking stuffers for any Bronze Age member of your family. But make sure you read them. Charles Schulz was nearing the first of many artistic peaks with these strips.
Is Peanuts the greatest comic strip of all time? It is hard to say for certain since there have been so many classics that have run throughout our lifetimes and and the lifetimes of our parents (and grandparents) before us. Calvin and Hobbes, Pogo, Popeye and Wash Tubbs/Captain Easy immediately come to mind. They are all masterpieces of the comic strip form–timeless, inspiring and entertaining…but do any of these (along with dozens I neglected to mention) have the true emotional pull and the personal connection we have all felt at one time with Charles Schulz masterpiece featuring Charlie Brown and the gang? Is there any visual ICON from the past 50 years more universally familiar than Snoopy?
