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Who's
the Funny-Looking Kid with the Big Nose?
is a collection of Peanuts
comic strips. This book includes cartoons from You Need
Help, Charlie Brown and The Unsinkable Charlie Brown from the
years 1964 - 1966. The
daily cartoons appear in black and white, along with the few Sunday
comics near the end of the book. Peppermint Patty is introduced at near
the end of the book.
This collection contains the following
storylines: Linus for School President, Lucy vs The Blanket, Dandelions
on the Pitcher's Mound, Snoopy' Family Reunion, Charlie Brown Goes to
Camp, Sally and the New Math, The Eye Patch, No TV, Snoopy the Bird
Nest, Linus and Lucy Move, Linus Goes to Camp, and "Chuck".
On October
2, 1950, Peanuts
debuted
in seven newspapers
and ran until January
3, 2000 when Charles M. Schulz bid a fond farewell to all his readers in
the final daily Peanuts newspaper strip. On February
12, 2000, Charles Schulz died on a Saturday evening, of complications
from colon cancer in Santa Rosa, CA. He was 77 years old. On February
13, 2000, the final Sunday Peanuts newspaper strip appeared. "Charles
M. Schulz
(b. 1922) is the most widely syndicated cartoonist in history, with his
work appearing in over 2,300 newspapers. He has published more than
1,400 books, won Peabody and Emmy awards for his animated specials, and
is responsible for the most-produced musical in the American theatre,
entitled "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown". And all this
diversity and recognition and continuous success began over
50
years ago." (Illustration
House)
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