The Snoopy Treasures by Nat Gertler (Titan, 2015) Presented like a deluxe collection of comics — an odd format for its purpose — the Snoopy Treasury is more a potted history of the Snoopy (not Peanuts) phenomenon, exploring Snoopy’s development within Schulz’s strips and his many, many manifestations in the outside world.
Tag: Charles M. Schulz
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Peanuts
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, ed. Zachary Leibman (Running Press, 2014) A laughably ill-considered compilation, not significantly cheaper than any given volume of ‘The Complete Peanuts’ yet presenting only a flea’s fraction of the comics — often one per A5 page — at painfully reduced size, arbitrarily selected under the conceit of…
42 Word Review: Celebrating Peanuts – 60 Years
Celebrating Peanuts: 60 Years by Charles M. Schulz (Andrews McMeel, 2009) Beautifully presented, with the Sundays reproduced in full colour, this hefty hardcover exemplifies the droll brilliance of Schulz, devoting 100+ large, glossy pages each to the five decades in which Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang ruled the world of comic strips.