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Cartoonist and creator of "Peanuts," Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was the winner of two Reuben, two Peabody, and five Emmy awards and a member of the Cartoonist Hall of Fame.Charles Schulz was born i...
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In his retirement letter to the public printed in part in Variety, Charles M. Schulz maintains that the only thing he "really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist and I feel very blessed to be able to d...
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Critical Essay by Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
[The] art of the cartoon strip must not have been wholly corrupted if it can still afford a working medium for so scrupulous and lively an imagination as that of...
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Critical Essay by Robert G. Miner, Jr.
Without even venturing into the possibilities [the "Snoopy Come Home" Movie Book] suggests—among them the cliché that this is a post-...
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Critical Essay by Sherwin D. Smith
["Peanuts" is the] General Motors of comic strips, it sometimes seems. The latest count was 44 in print, not all of them by any means proper reprints o...
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Critical Essay by Paul Engle
It should have been expected that Peppermint Patty would kick the national holiday around [in "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"], and that Marcie and Franklin w...
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Critical Essay by John Seelye
That Snoopy! If recollection serves, Charlie Brown's dog began where Dagwood's Daisy left off, a silent, even passive witness to human folly, occasionally g...
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Critical Essay by Richard R. Lingeman
[Everybody] likes Peanuts, and that is as much a tribute to Mr. Schulz's Lilliputian genius as it is to his avoidance of controversy. The Peanuts children ...
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Critical Essay by John Jacobus
[For] the true Peanuts fan, accustomed to the more functionally proportioned soft-cover collections, the giant Peanuts Jubilee is a bit much. However, its creator, Charl...
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Critical Essay by Alastair Fowler
[Charles Schulz's] autobiographical memoir Peanuts Jubilee reads almost like a story, a myth of middle America. However modestly told, it must be a great succe...
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Critical Essay by Benny Green
For some time now I have been mystified by the sheer extent of the Peanuts trend. That the average casual reader is a schoolboy I have always realised…. But the di...
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Critical Essay by Joyce Swartney
[Charlie Brown's Second Super Book of Questions and Answers: About the Earth and Space … From Plants to Planets!] will answer questions such as where do ...
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Critical Essay by Jean Marie Hiesberger and Pat Mclaughlin
A major problem with What A Nightmare, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz is that the format and illustrations suggest it was written for you...
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Critical Essay by William H. Mcneill
"On a beautiful day like this it would be best to stay in bed so you wouldn't get up and spoil it," says Charlie Brown in Charles M. Schulz&#x...
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Critical Essay by Robert L. Short
"Art-Parable is that creation of man with no practical use except to communicate meaning indirectly through forms that capture one's attention." ...
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Critical Essay by Johnny Hart
Since the very beginning, each era or generation has had its satirical cartoonist; one who stands above the others, points to what we have really become, and teaches us t...
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Critical Essay by Charles M. Schulz
During these twenty years, I have had the opportunity to observe what makes a good comic strip. I am convinced that the ones that have survived and maintained a hig...
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Critical Essay by Clarence Petersen
[Snoopy and the Red Baron] was Schulz's first full-length cartoon adventure and, as the publisher describes it, "In the tradition of the great war nov...
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Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz
Critical Essay by Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
