THE COMPLETE PEANUTS 1973-1974: VOLUME 12 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Charles M. Schulz,Billie Jean King | 344 pages | 01 Nov 2012 | Canongate Books Ltd | 9780857864086 | English | Edinburgh, United Kingdom The Complete Peanuts, Vol. by Charles M. Schulz There is just so much good stuff here: "speak softly and carry a beagle;" "Bust, Marcie!! It's a perfectly legitimate sewing term! You've just been elected camp president! Aug 27, Rick rated it really liked it Shelves: comics. The strips in this volume in The Complete Peanuts represent Schulz nearing the halfway mark of his amazingly long career. Nearly a quarter century in and Schulz shows no signs of weariness or any decline in imagination. The strip remains vital and funny. He dons a paper sack to hide his seams and off to summer camp where Mr. Sack is elected Camp President and rules to great acclaim. Sally falls for her school building, literally and the affection is returned. Peppermint Patty continues to excel at sports but not at school where she remains a straight Z student. She even plays the race card when preparing for a figure skating competition she and Franklin contend for ice time. He wants to prepare for the NHL. And so it goes in the land of Peanuts, wonderfully wry and clever and compassionate. Mar 14, J. Seem rated it really liked it Shelves: comics-graphic-novels. By now, it's been ages since I finished this, before the premiere of our last show actually, and it's been such a crazy busy month, so it's not really that fresh in my memory to be honest, but I think Amazon can help there, so here goes. You'd think, after two decades of writing Peanuts , Charles M. Schulz would have been cleaned out of new ideas, but it's with remarkable ease that he conjures up new storylines and thinks outside the box, making new adventures even for Snoopy, who starts leaving t By now, it's been ages since I finished this, before the premiere of our last show actually, and it's been such a crazy busy month, so it's not really that fresh in my memory to be honest, but I think Amazon can help there, so here goes. Schulz would have been cleaned out of new ideas, but it's with remarkable ease that he conjures up new storylines and thinks outside the box, making new adventures even for Snoopy, who starts leaving the safe haven of his doghouse rooftop. I did notice though, that I didn't quote as much from this volume as some of the previous, which is why I don't rate it quite up there with the other ones. These particular years have less of these quotable, simple, down-to-earth truths that I love so dearly, even though it's true that the story lines which are increasing in length and plot here are more creative. But personally, I prefer Charles Schulz' wisdom to that. Where most American gag strips were about the silly things that happen every day, Peanuts was about how to keep on living when you don't get what you want. So true. However, I very much enjoy the first appearance of Lucy and Linus' kid brother Rerun, as well as the entering of Sally's whom I've always strongly identified with talking school building. A solid work in any case. Jul 06, Heather rated it really liked it Recommends it for: pop culture aficionados, comics lovers, beagle enthusiasts, round-headed kids. This is the first book in the series that I've felt was a little stagnant. Nothing particularly ground-breaking here. No major character introductions unless the character of "the school building" counts? Snoopy and Woodstock have some adversarial times in this volume, which raised an eyebrow ever so slightly, but the fighting didn't last long before they hugged and made up. Lots of mentions of bicycles in this volume, as America was hot into the bicycle craze that accompanied the energy crisi This is the first book in the series that I've felt was a little stagnant. Lots of mentions of bicycles in this volume, as America was hot into the bicycle craze that accompanied the energy crisis of the mids. As a bicyclist I found their take on utilitarian bicycling to be interesting and kind of negative for a couple of reasons. Rerun Van Pelt, Lucy and Linus' little brother, is regularly taken around town on the back of his mother's bicycle: good! His commentary on both being "exposed" to the elements and on his mother's lack of basic handling skills: not so good! I was miffed as both a woman and a utilitarian bicyclist. What a Just over ten years after the march on Washington? Betcha they're not going to be rerunning that one as "Classic Peanuts Nov 29, Scott rated it it was amazing. Another milestone passed on my quest to read all the Peanuts strips. In this volume Peppermint Patyy continues to get lots of airtime, along with her nerdy sidekick Marcie. PP becomes something of a counterpoint to Charlie Brown - his exact opposite on any sort of playing field since she's a natural athlete, but apparently just as clueless as he is in any other facet of life. Snoopy gets lots of airtime too, but that's a given - here, though, he's usually paired with Woodstock. But still finds t Another milestone passed on my quest to read all the Peanuts strips. But still finds time to indulge his fantasy life, and even serves briefly as Peppermint Patty's ice skating coach. Unfortunately the meet that she's training for turns out to be for roller skating. Violet still occasionally appears, but Shermie and Pigpen are still totally absent. As is the original Patty, another member of the original crowd who didn't make it this far - and presumably never will now that her name has been usurped by the much more interesting Peppermint Patty. Still, Patty was the only blonde in the early days, shouldn't that count for something? One thing we never hear about in Peanuts is the attrition rate, but there were definitely some who fell by the wayside over the years. So non-Peppermint Patty, this one's for you. Dec 16, Rugg Ruggedo rated it it was amazing. Tennis is a theme in the strip during this period so Billie Jean King takes her shot at the introduction. Peppermint Patty and Marcie try their hands at quite a few sport is these years and have a pretty funny run in with Charlie Brown's dad,he's a barber. Charlie Brown,in order to hide a baseball blemish wears a bag over his head and becomes well liked when no one knows how he is. Rerun takes a walk in a baseball game and drives in the winning run. The Great Pumpkin was back for one of the years and gone again in the next. Fantagraphics has released 20 of the 25 volumes that will make up the entire run of Peanuts in our local papers. As a fan of the series, I collected all the Fawcet paperback reprints too, I have loved rereading it in the original order. I'm not sure its for everyone tho. I think anyone might enjoy a single volume but most people wouldnt be into reading them all in a row like I'm doing now. Worth checking out tho, especially the early volumes where you can see the strip develop. Oct 24, The other John rated it liked it Shelves: amusing , borrowed , comics. My wife, the family Peanuts maven, has declared that this is the first volume of The Complete Peanuts that she will not be purchasing. In her opinion, Schulz's comic genius had lost its edge by this time in the life of the strip. It's also past the era when she would eagerly search the daily paper for her Peanuts fix, so unlike, say, the previous volume of the collection, this book has little nostalgic appeal. Such is her opinion. For myself, I've never been a major Peanuts fan. The strip is wor My wife, the family Peanuts maven, has declared that this is the first volume of The Complete Peanuts that she will not be purchasing. The strip is worth reading, certainly. I'm just not going to go out of my way to find it. So, I didn't check this book out of the library. But I certainly read it when my wife did so. For me, it also evoked a bit of nostalgia when Schulz would make the occasional reference to then latest fads. Streaking and the the metric system! All in all, it's definitely worth checking out. I'll just have to find something else to give my wife for Christmas. American History Peanuts, an unlikely name for a cartoon strip from it's creator, is American history. From its beginning, it was a strip of life from a child's point of view. It's from that view we get a child's view of an adult world, and how funny or ridiculous it may seem. I give it 5 stars because the strip wasn't silly slapstick, nor sarcastic. It left you hoping for the Charlie Brown's of the world, the Walter Mitty's in a canine way.. The peanut gallery never grew up. That's a good thing. Because many of us are still in there pitching.