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- My Life with Charlie Brown
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: University Press of Mississippi
summary
While best known as the creator of Peanuts Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time.Schulz's autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate his life and his art, and clarify themes of modern life, philosophy, and religion that are interwoven into his beloved, groundbreaking comic strip. Edited and with an introduction by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge, this volume will serve as the touchstone for Schulz's thoughts and convictions and as a wide-ranging, unique autobiography in the absence of a traditional, extended memoir Inge and the Schulz estate have chosen a number of illustrations to include. With the approval and cooperation of the Schulz family, Inge draws on the cartoonist's entire archives, papers, and correspondence to allow Schulz full voice to speak his mind. The project includes his comics criticism, his introductions to Peanuts volumes, his essays about philanthropy, his commentary on Christianity, his newspaper articles about the creation of his characters, and more. My Life with Charlie Brown will reveal new dimensions of this legendary cartoonist
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. ix-xiv
- Chronology
- pp. xv-xxii
- MY LIFE
- Peanuts as Profession of Faith
- pp. 20-25
- Charles Schulz and Peanuts
- pp. 32-36
- The Christmas That Almost Got Stolen
- pp. 37-40
- I’ll Be Back in Time for Lunch
- pp. 46-50
- Comic Inspiration
- pp. 57-59
- Don’t Grow Up
- pp. 60-66
- My Shot: Good Grief!
- pp. 67-68
- A Morning Routine
- pp. 69-70
- MY PROFESSION
- Developing a Comic Strip
- pp. 77-84
- Peanuts—How It All Began
- pp. 85-88
- Creativity
- pp. 89-103
- A Career in Cartooning
- pp. 104-110
- Happiness Is a Lot of Assignments
- pp. 116-122
- On Staying Power
- pp. 123-125
- Pleasures of the Chalk-Talk
- pp. 141-144
- MY ART
- The Theme of Peanuts
- pp. 147-163
- But a Comic Strip Has to Grow
- pp. 164-170
- What Do You Do with a Dog That Doesn’t Talk?
- pp. 171-178
Additional Information
ISBN
9781604734485
Related ISBN(s)
9781604734478
MARC Record
OCLC
608693595
Pages
144
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No