Michelle Ann Abate, "Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts"
English | ISBN: 1496844181 | 2023 | 222 pages | PDF | 14 MB
English | ISBN: 1496844181 | 2023 | 222 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. More specifically, it examines a fundamental feature of the series: its core cast of characters. In chapters devoted to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Franklin, Pigpen, Woodstock, and Linus, author Michelle Ann Abate explores the figures who made Schulz’s strip so successful, so influential, and—above all—so beloved. In so doing, the book gives these iconic figures the in-depth critical attention that they deserve and for which they are long overdue.
Abate considers the exceedingly familiar characters from
Read more