Snoopy & les Peanuts 1961-1962 (Book #6)

Bienvenue Charlie Brown

Reprints Peanuts comic strips from 1956-1962.

Reviens, Snoopy

Le Beagle est revenu sur terre

Ne me casse les oreilles

A Peanuts Book.Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-15955.Pages not numbered.

Ça ne va pas, 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

Le 2 octobre 1950 paraît la première bande dessinée des Peanuts avec Charlie Brown. Il faudra attendre 1958 avant que ce brave Charlie Brown ne devienne officiellement le propriétaire du facétieux beagle Snoopy! Pendant cinquante ans, Charles M. Schulz dessina le petit monde des Peanuts seul, incluant le passage à l'encre et le lettrage. Il se plaisait à rappeler que nombre d'idées amusantes provenaient de l'actualité, de la simple lecture des journaux ou des incidents insignifiants de tous les jours. Cette anthologie réunit les plus belles planches de Schulz, choisies entre 1950 et 2000, et se termine avec la publication des adieux de Snoopy le 13 février 2000. L'auteur est mort le 12 février 2000.

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