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From Publishers Weekly
Holter Graham's reading is clear and well paced, and he makes good use of pauses and emphasis for emotional effect as we peer into the miserable life a genius—the fabulously successful and enormously influential creator of the Peanuts gang. Schulz thought of himself as ordinary rather than brilliant, as melancholy rather than depressed. But no kind of unhappiness ever interfered with his 50 years of daily cartooning. Michaelis shows us that [t]o the very end, his life had been inseparable from his art and that his art reflected not only his own changing thought and circumstances but also America's political and social shifts from one decade to the next. There are two minor limitations to the audio version: it's missing the 240 Peanuts strips that illustrated and illuminated Michaelis's text, and one wishes that this captivating and well-researched biography had been unabridged. Schulz's very last Peanuts strip was published the day he died.
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David MichaelisÕs biography of ÒPeanutsÓ cartoonist Charles Schulz is at once the most joyful and saddest book of 2007. Holter Graham does a superb job telling the rags-to-riches story of a man whose work appears so simple, until the reader looks deeper. Even Graham must have had a knot in his throat while recounting SchulzÕs final days when he admits his regret that Òthe little guy never got to kick the football.Ó Schulz was one of historyÕs most successful cartoonists, parlaying his strip into a billion-dollar industry that continues after his death. Yet the intelligent, driven man was sometimes depressed and always unfulfilled. The fact that for five decades he produced all those amazing cartoons in spite of these emotional issues makes him even more impressive. M.S. 2008 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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Holter Graham's reading is clear and well paced, and he makes good use of pauses and emphasis for emotional effect as we peer into the miserable life a genius—the fabulously successful and enormously influential creator of the Peanuts gang. Schulz thought of himself as ordinary rather than brilliant, as melancholy rather than depressed. But no kind of unhappiness ever interfered with his 50 years of daily cartooning. Michaelis shows us that [t]o the very end, his life had been inseparable from his art and that his art reflected not only his own changing thought and circumstances but also America's political and social shifts from one decade to the next. There are two minor limitations to the audio version: it's missing the 240 Peanuts strips that illustrated and illuminated Michaelis's text, and one wishes that this captivating and well-researched biography had been unabridged. Schulz's very last Peanuts strip was published the day he died.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From AudioFile
David MichaelisÕs biography of ÒPeanutsÓ cartoonist Charles Schulz is at once the most joyful and saddest book of 2007. Holter Graham does a superb job telling the rags-to-riches story of a man whose work appears so simple, until the reader looks deeper. Even Graham must have had a knot in his throat while recounting SchulzÕs final days when he admits his regret that Òthe little guy never got to kick the football.Ó Schulz was one of historyÕs most successful cartoonists, parlaying his strip into a billion-dollar industry that continues after his death. Yet the intelligent, driven man was sometimes depressed and always unfulfilled. The fact that for five decades he produced all those amazing cartoons in spite of these emotional issues makes him even more impressive. M.S. 2008 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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