And the Beagles and the Bunnies Shall Lie Down Together (Peanuts classics) [Paperback]

Charles M. Schulz (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co (P) (April 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805010661
• ISBN-13: 978-0805010664
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,896,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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 Believe It Or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post--as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. 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. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts--and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate). 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.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Collection Of Strips With Religious Themes, September 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: And the Beagles and the Bunnies Shall Lie Down Together (Peanuts classics) (Paperback)

Peanuts was one of the first strips to bring religion into the comics mainstream and this is a collection of the more successful strips. The usual Peanuts style of bittersweet humor. Highly recommended.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Real Stuff, April 4, 2000

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Nat Gertler (Thousand Oaks, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And the Beagles and the Bunnies Shall Lie Down Together (Peanuts classics) (Paperback)

There have been a number of books discussing how Peanuts comic strips deal with biblical, moral, and theological topics, but this book gets down to the nitty gritty: it lets the strips speak for themselves. It has 125 strips from different periods of the run of Peanuts, and there's good stuff throughout.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book -- I wish they'd reprint it, April 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: And the Beagles and the Bunnies Shall Lie Down Together (Peanuts classics) (Paperback)

In the time since the printing of "Beagles and Bunnies" I have had two copies and I loved the book. However, I wanted to be able to share the experience and so I gave them away. The first went to a preacher in Yosemite who often quoted the strip and the second went a pastor here who also often quoted it. I don't regret giving them away... I just wish I had a copy now that Sparky is gone...