Don't Hassle Me With Your Sighs, Chuck

(Peanut Parade Book 12)
by
Charles M. Schulz

Holt Rinehart Winston, 1976, 186 pp.
ISBN: 0-03-018211-5

Genre: Comics
Subgenre: Comic Strip / Humor
Reviewed: 8/27/2005

Reviewed by: Conan Tigard

Book Cover

Comic Strip

Peanuts comic strip

 

Synopsis

Don't Hassle Me With Your Sighs, Chuck written and drawn by Charles M. Schulz is a collection of Peanuts comic strips. This book includes cartoons the years 1975 & 1976. All of the comic strips appear in black and white.

This collection contains the following storylines: Truffles, Brick Dog House, No Summer Job = Summer Camp, The Powder Puff Derby, Spike, Peppermint Patty and the Great Pumpkin, Snoopy Travels to Needles, School No More, and Snoopy Breaks His Foot.

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)

 

Review

Don't Hassle Me With Your Sighs, Chuck introduces two new characters to the Peanuts world: Truffles and Spike. Truffles is a rather awkward-looking country girl that Linus and Snoopy fall for while Spike is Snoopy's long-lost brother who lives out in the dessert. Since these comic strips were written in the 1970's, other main characters have now appeared that were not in the 1960's books; like Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Woodstalk.

Overall, Don't Hassle Me With Your Sighs, Chuck is a fun collection that has its moments. My favorite storyline is when Charlie Brown's school commits suicide and Charlie Brown has to go to Peppermint Patty's school. He is forced to sit next to her, and she becomes quite the nag. Funny.

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2005