About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Peanuts, Dennis the Menace, Perry Mason, Gaston, Beetle Bailey, Moomin, Monica's Gang, B.C., Jeff Hawke, The Perishers, James Bond, Jules Feiffer, Andy Capp, Mort & Phil, Mafalda, The Cisco Kid, Judge Parker, Sky Masters, Marmaduke, Pee-Wee Harris, Dondi, Hi and Lois, La Patrouille des Castors, Rasmus Klump, Lance, Beryl the Peril, Miss Peach, Le Petit Noel, Rick O'Shay, Beyond Mars, Channel Chuckles, Big Ben Bolt, King Aroo, The Nebbishes, Twin Earths, Gil Thorp, The Heart of Juliet Jones, Mary Perkins, On Stage, Poor Arnold's Almanac, Aggie Mack, The Better Half, The Strange World of Mr. Mum, Uncle Choi, Kuri-chan, The Jackson Twins, The Gambols, Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales, Mason Mastroianni, Sir Bagby, It's Only a Game, An Altar Boy Named Speck, Billy the Bee, Romeo Brown, All in Sport. Excerpt: Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Professor Robert Thompson of Syracuse University. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in many newspapers. Peanuts achieved considerable success for its television specials, several of which, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the...
