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Gardner, Jared and Ian Gordon, eds. The Comics of Charles Schulz: The Good Grief of Modern Life. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2017. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-4968-1289-6
BibTeX citation key: Gardner2017b
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Keywords: "Peanuts", Collection of essays, Comic strip, Schulz. Charles M., USA
Creators: Gardner, Gordon
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson)		 Views: 36/1005
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Abstract
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 Schulzoffers the most comprehensive and diverse study of the most influential cartoonist during the second half of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Introduction (3)

Philosophy and Poetics
1. Ben Saunders: Peppermint Patty’s Desire. Charles Schulz and the Queer Comics of Failure (13)
2. Anne C. McCarthy: “There Has to Be Something Deeply Symbolic in That.” Peanuts and the Sublime (29)
3. Roy T. Cook: Saying, Showing, and Schulz. The Typography and Notation of Peanuts (42)

Identity and Performance
4. Lara Saguisag: Consuming Childhood Peanuts and Children’s Consumer Culture in the Postwar Era (65)
5. Leonie Brialey: "How Can We Lose When We’re So Sincere?" Varieties of Sincerity in Peanuts (79)
6. Jeffrey O. Segrave: “I Thought I Was Winning in the Game of Life … But There Was a Flag on the Play.” Sport in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts (93)

Peanuts and History
7. Michael Tisserand: Footballs and Ottim Liffs. Charlie Brown in Coconino (111)
8. Joseph J. Darowski: Schulz and the Late Sixties. Snoopy’s Signs of the Times (121)
9. Christopher P. Lehman: Franklin and the Early 1970s (133)

Transmedial Peanuts
10. Ben Novotny Owen: Making a World for All of God’s Children. A Charlie Brown Christmas and the Aesthetics of Doubt and Faith (159)
11. M.J. Clarke: Charles Schulz, Comic Art, and Personal Value (165)
12. Ian Gordon: Charlie Brown Cafés and the Marketing of Peanuts in Asia (183)
13. Gene Kannenberg Jr.: Chips off the Ol’ Blockhead. Evidence of Influence in Peanuts Parodies (197)

Contributors (213)
Index (217)


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