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It's Great to be a Super
Star is a collection of Peanuts
comic strips written and drawn by Charles M. Schulz. This book includes
cartoons from the years 1969, 1970 & 1971. These comic strips originally
appeared in the smaller paperback books You're Out of Sight, Charlie
Brown and You've Come a Long Way, Charlie Brown. All of the
comic strips appear in black and white.
This collection contains the
following storylines: Peppermint Patty Can't Wear Sandals to School,
Snoopy vs. the Head Beagle, Lucy Takes Care of Snoop . . . Sort Of, It
Was a Dark and Stormy Night, I'm a New Feminist, Snoopy the Head Beagle,
First Day of School, Vince Lombardi He's Not, Joe Shlabotnik Where Are
You?, Woodstock, and Thimbault Needs a Baseball Glove.
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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