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It's a Long Way to Tipperary is a collection of Peanuts
comic strips. This book includes cartoons from The Unsinkable Charlie
Brown from the years 1965 & 1966 and You'll Flip, Charlie Brown!
from the years 1965 - 1967. All of the comic strips appear in black and white.
This collection contains the following
storylines: Rain Washed Away My Pitcher's Mound, Where's My Eye Patch,
The Spelling Bee, Snoopy's Dog House Burns Down, Kite-Eating Tree,
Broken Crayon, Arm Wrestling Champ, The Science Project, Safety Patrol,
The Measles Shot, Peppermint Patty and the Great Pumpkin, and Behind
Enemy Lines.
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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