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It's Hard Work Being
Bitter is a collection
of Peanuts comic strips written and drawn by Charles M. Schulz. This
book includes cartoons from the years 1972 - 1973. These comic strips originally appeared in the smaller paperback
books Thompson is in Trouble, Charlie Brown and You're the
Guest of Honor, Charlie
Brown. All of the comic strips appear in black and white.
This
collection contains the following story arcs: Charlie Brown - Camp
Troublemaker, Lost in a Tree, Lucy Quits the Baseball Team, Snoopy Plays
Football, Thompson is in Trouble, The Six Bunny-Wunnies Freak Out
Banned at School Library, Snoopy Helps Woodstock Migrate, No Christmas
Presents for Lucy, Banana Nose, Charlie Brown's Testimonial Dinner, The
Daisy Hill Puppy Cup, and Rerun Joins the Baseball Team.
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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