C'est la vie, Charlie Brown

Me faire ca à moi, Charlie Brown

The second volume of Fantagraphics Books' monumental Complete Peanuts series covers 1953-54, and the visual style and character development is closer to the kids we know and love, as they try to exist in a grown-up world. Charlie Brown is no longer the object of Patty and Violet's affection--derision, more like--and his pattern of losing continues. His misery at checkers hits 5000 (June 1953), 6000 (August), 7000 (November), 8000 (still November), and 10,000 (December) consecutive games, he gets shut out on Valentine's Day (February '53), he wears his first bad Halloween costume (October '54), and he gets a form rejection slip from Santa (December '54). On the baseball diamond, though, he actually has the lead in a game (April '53, but we don't see the final score) and briefly plays catcher. By now Lucy has become the main girl in the strip, and in addition to beating Charlie Brown at checkers, she begins her romantic pursuit of Schroeder (January '53), joins the baseball team (August '54), and wins her third consecutive Miss Fussbudget of the Year title (November '54). Her younger brother, Linus, starts what will become a longstanding feud with Snoopy in the first Sunday strip of '53, shows he's a prodigy in jump rope, blocks, houses of cards, and balloon blowing, and cuddles his security blanket (May '54). Schroeder continues his obsession with Beethoven and reveals the secret to playing great literature on a plastic piano with painted-on black keys (practice and "getting the breaks"). We meet two new characters, the perpetually dirty Pig-Pen (July '54) and the loudmouthed Charlotte Braun, whose funny name wasn't enough to keep her around for long.  Charles M. Schulz, whose own insecurity manifested itself in Charlie Brown (who not coincidentally draws his own cartoons), came up with his first multiple-strip storyline (starting with a four-Sunday series of Lucy joining a golf tournament coached by Charlie Brown, May '54) in this period, and provides us with a glimpse of the 1950s--deco furniture ("What in the world is a rocking chair"? asks CB), 3-D movies, H-bomb testing, and even what in hindsight looks like a prediction of the troubles in Vietnam (May '54). The second volume maintains the high quality of the first volume; even if it doesn't have the same extent of extra materials, it has an introduction by Walter Cronkite, a note on one strip that had to be partially reconstructed, and that handy index of characters and topics. --David Horiuchi

Snoopy et les Peanuts - Vol. 2: 1953-1954

Charlie Brown est incurable. Mais doit-on guérir de son enfance ? Quelle est cette étrange familiarité qui nous envahit lorsqu'on feuillette des ouvrages de Charles M. Schulz ? Les enfants de cette série sont tous notre enfance : qui comme Linus n'a pas eu besoin de sa couverture et envie de sucer son pouce ? Qui n'a pas promis qu'il allait laisser tomber son objet transitionnel, le reprenant avec soumission ultérieurement ? Qui ne s'est pas caché comme lui sous sa couverture par peur du monde environnant, qui n'a pas eu une sœur redoutable qui essaie de lui gâcher la vie ?

On va y arriver, Charlie Brown

That’s right! With this volume, The Complete Peanuts reaches the halfway point of Charles M. Schulz’s astounding half-century run on the greatest comic strip of all time.These years are especially fecund in terms of new canine characters, as Snoopy is joined by his wandering brother Spike(from Needles), his beloved sister Belle (from Kansas City), and... did you know he had a nephew? In other beagle news, Snoopy breaks his foot and spends six weeks in a cast, deals with his friend Woodstock’s case of the “the vapors,” and gets involved in a heated love triangle with Linus over the girl “Truffles.”The Complete Peanuts 1975-1976 features several other long stories, including a rare “double track” sequence with two parallel narratives: Peppermint Patty and Snoopy travel to participate in the Powderpuff Derby, while Charlie Brown finally gets to meet his idol Joe Shlabotnik. And Peppermint Patty switches to a private school, but commits the mistake of allowing Snoopy to pick it for her; only after graduation does she realize something’s not quite right!Plus: A burglary at Peppermint Patty’s house is exacerbated by waterbed problems... Marcie acquires an unwanted suitor... Charlie Brown and Peppermint Patty become desk partners... The talking school building collapses... Lots of tennis jokes... and gags starring Schroeder, Lucy, Franklin, Rerun, Sally, and that vicious cat next door. It’s another two years of Peanuts at its finest! Featuring an introduction by comedian Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Saturday Night Live).

Snoopy et les Peanuts - Vol. 13 : 1975-1976

Snoopy toujours prêt !

Un groupe d'enfants, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Patty, Linus, Schroeder, et le chien Snoopy, occupés par leurs jeux et leurs conversations. Sur ce schéma de base, un courant continu de variations, selon un rythme propre à certaines épopées primitives, de telle sorte que vous ne pourrez jamais découvrir la force de cette poésie ininterrompue en ne lisant qu'une ou deux ou dix histoires, mais uniquement après avoir pénétré le fond des caractères et des situations, car la grâce, la tendresse et le rire naissent uniquement de la répétition, changeante à l'infini, des schémas, de la fidélité à l'inspiration de base, et demandent au lecteur un acte permanent de sympathie, une participation à la chaleur qui pénètre de l'intérieur le fil des événements. Mais il y a plus encore : la poésie de ces enfants naît du fait que nous retrouvons en eux tous les problèmes, toutes les névroses des adultes qui se tiennent dans les coulisses.

C'est la vie, Charlie Brown

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