Series: Peanuts | Publication Date: March 29, 2005
GOOD GRIEF, THAT’S A SAND TRAP, CHARLIE BROWN!
Hit the links with this laugh-out-loud collection of golf-themed strips featuring the entire Peanuts Gang. Snoopy has snagged an invite to play at the Masters, but will he bow-wow under pressure? Lucy’s mean slice may just win her the state amateur champion. Marcie and Peppermint Patty want to be caddies, but they might be better suited for the beverage cart, Sir. And don’t forget about lovable Charlie Brown, who just wants to make par for the course–on the first hole. This irresistible take on golf will sink a putt with every fan of the fairway!
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.
This review is from: It's Par for the Course, Charlie Brown (Peanuts) (Hardcover)
My husband and I got this book as a Christmas present for his Snoopy-obsessed aunt. She also loves golf, so nothing could have been better. On Christmas, she had a great time looking through it and reading the comics that struck her fancy out loud. If there is someone in your life who's hard to shop for (who just happens to love Snoopy AND golf!) look no further...this is the perfect gift.
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