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Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1922 and grew up in Saint Paul. He gained a reputation worldwide as a cartoonist for his work on Peanuts. He died in 2000.One of the finest cultural artifacts made in the 20th century.
- Russell T. Davies,
<i>Peanuts</i> was, and is, and will continue to be the finest comic in the world. Bravo.
- Ray Bradbury,
The world of <i>Peanuts </i>is a microcosm, a little human comedy for the innocent reader and for the sophisticated.
- Umberto Eco,
...as powerful a comic art-piece as anything out today...will delight <i>Peanuts</i> aficionados.
* Observer *
Beautifully designed ... One of the high-water marks of post-war popular culture.
* Daily Telegraph *
All sorts of important writers have marveled at the glorious simplicity of [Schulz's] draftsmanship and his unerring jokecraft, all underpinned by a quiet melancholy and stoicism . . . by some miracle, the entire Peanuts oeuvre is gradually being republished in this country, by Canongate . . . in lavishly appointed hardback . . . Unlike almost everything you read as a child, they are actually better than you remember them.
* Spectator *
...these timely re-issues illustrate not only the skill and subtle brilliance of his work but also the origins of the form beyond simple merriment.
* The List *
Canongate has had the brilliant wheeze of reprinting Charles Schulz's strip cartoon from the beginning in hardback volumes...
* Herald *
The Complete Peanuts is beautifully bound, a comprehensive resource and, with an index and introduction, a useful contextualisation of a modern legend.
* The Skinny *
...in these first volumes (1950-54), we can already see what will appeal to 21st century readers.
* Sunday Times *