Via Tom Peyer, Stuart Moore's preview of the next Peanuts volume and why it may be the single volume most worth getting.
Now, I'm buying every single Peanuts volume until the end of time, but Stuart isn't wrong: This is the period when Schulz's powers were at their zenith, at the center of his Golden Age from the late 50s to early 70s.
Peanuts is a masterpiece of melancholy and the response to life that you have to laugh, to keep from crying.
Let me repeat that: Peanuts is a masterpiece. I've talked about why, before, and I'll do it again if I haven't convinced you. But, really, read the 1965-1966 book. It says more than I could.
Posted by Greg at August 27, 2007 4:39 PM
"Next" Peanuts volume? I bought it two weeks ago.
Well, I haven't gotten it yet. It's "next" to me.
I just found a copy of the 1965 - 1966 book and I totally agree with you. They're wonderful. I love how so many of them are constructed with childish arguments and then the final panel is a line of deep, eternal wisdom that only an adult would understand fully. I see them through a whole new light now, as I hadn't really read them since I was 10 years old.
Thanks for the suggestion, I've had an evening filled with laughter, reminiscence, and philosophical pondering because of it. Lost a whole night of sleep, too.
Excellent! Another convert/victim!