EVANIER, Mark [Charles M. Schulz; Chip Kidd].
The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time.
New York: Abrams ComicArts , 2025.
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Signed Limited Edition of Mark Evanier's The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz; Signed by Legendary Designer Chip Kidd with an Original Peanuts Artwork Print Signed by Mark Evanier, Chip Kidd, and Patrick McDonnell
Signed limited first edition of this landmark deluxe anniversary volume celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Peanuts. Rectangular quarto, pictorial boards and endpapers, illustrated with over 700 iconic comic strips and related ephemera, with included bonus items of eight ready-to-frame prints, eight postcards, vinyl decals, an iron-on patch, and a full-color comic book. Boldly signed and dated by contributor and legendary designer Chip Kidd on the title page in the year of publication. Accompanied by a limited edition Schulz' original Peanuts artwork print signed on the lower margin by Mark Evanier, Chip Kidd, and Patrick McDonnell. One of 500 numbered copies, this is lettered AU. In fine condition. Introduction by Patrick McDonnell. Foreword by Jean Schulz. Housed in the original golden slipcase with Charlie Brown and Snoopy on the front panel.
Peanuts, the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) stands as one of the most consequential and culturally pervasive works in the history of American popular art — a deceptively simple four-panel strip whose cast of characters, led by the perpetually defeated Charlie Brown, the philosophical beagle Snoopy, the acerbic Lucy van Pelt, and the blanket-clutching Linus, gave voice to a melancholy, ironic, and ultimately compassionate vision of the human condition that resonated across generations, cultures, and languages with a universality few works of any kind have matched. Schulz produced the strip continuously for nearly fifty years until his death, generating a body of work encompassing more than 17,000 individual strips that appeared in over 2,600 newspapers in seventy-five countries and made him one of the most widely read cartoonists in history, while also inspiring an extraordinary range of ancillary cultural production including the beloved CBS television specials, most notably A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) with its landmark Vince Guaraldi jazz score, theatrical productions, merchandise, and a global licensing enterprise of staggering commercial scale. The strip's influence on subsequent generations of cartoonists, graphic novelists, animators, and popular artists has been profound and widely acknowledged, and its capacity to speak simultaneously to children and adults on entirely different levels of meaning has long been regarded as the defining mark of Schulz's genius. The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time (Abrams, 2025) is a landmark deluxe anniversary volume celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of Peanuts, with insightful cultural and historical context provided by award-winning author Mark Evanier, an introduction by Patrick McDonnell, a foreword by Jean Schulz, and original contributions by key figures from across the world of Peanuts, among them Chip Kidd on the design of Peanuts, Ben Folds on its musical legacy, Mike Massimino on Snoopy and Apollo 10, and Shuntaro Tanikawa, the Japanese poet laureate who translated the strip for Japanese readers. People magazine called it a definitive look at the life, art, and legacy of Charles M. Schulz, and IGN described it as the ultimate book for serious Peanuts fans
The Essential Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz: The Greatest Comic Strip of All Time.
$750.00
In Stock