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Thank Goodness for People is a collection of Peanuts comic strips. This book includes
cartoons from Go Fly a Kite, Charlie Brown from the years 1959 -
1960 and Peanuts Every Sunday from the
years 1958 - 1961. All of the comic strips appear in black and white.
The first two thirds of the book are Daily comics and the final third of
the book is Sunday comics.
This collection contains the following
storylines: Throwing Rocks, A Baby Sister, Miss Othmar Likes Me, Leaves
Are Crazy, Linus Forgets the Eggshells, Where is The Great Pumpkin,
Icicle over the Doghouse, and Baseball vs. Sally.
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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