With contributions by: Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook,
Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P.
Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara Saguisag, Ben Saunders,
Jeffrey O. Segrave, and Michael Tisserand. The Comics of Charles
Schulz collects new essays on the work of the creator of the
immensely popular Peanuts comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity,
few scholarly books on his work and career have been published.
This collection serves as a foundation for future study not only of
Charles Schulz (1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the understudied
medium of newspaper comics. Schulz's Peanuts ran for a half
century, during which time he drew the strip and its characters to
express keen observations on postwar American life and culture. As
Peanuts' popularity grew, Schulz had opportunities to shape the
iconography, style, and philosophy of modern life in ways he never
could have imagined when he began the strip in 1950. Edited by
leading scholars Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon, this volume ranges
over a spectrum of Schulz's accomplishments and influence, touching
on everything from cartoon aesthetics to the marketing of global
fast food. Philosophy, ethics, and cultural history all come into
play. Indeed, the book even highlights Snoopy's global reach as
American soft power. As the broad interdisciplinary range of this
volume makes clear, Peanuts offers countless possibilities for
study and analysis. From many perspectives-including childhood
studies, ethnic studies, health and exercise studies, as well as
sociology - The Comics of Charles Schulz offers the most
comprehensive and diverse study of the most influential cartoonist
during the second half of the twentieth century.
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