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Always Stick Up for the
Underbird is a collection
of Peanuts comic strips written and drawn by Charles M. Schulz. This
book includes cartoons from the years 1952 - 1957. These comic strips originally appeared in the smaller paperback
books Good Grief, More Peanuts and Good Ol' Charlie
Brown. All of the comic strips appear in black and white.
This
collection contains the following story arcs: Collection for New
Beethoven Memorial Hall, Birds Fly South for the Winter, The World is
Getting Smaller, Snoopy Can Do Imitations, My Stomach Hurts,
Weed-Claustrophobia, and Snoopy Loves to Dance.
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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