The Comics of Charles Schulz
The Comics of Charles Schulz
The Good Grief of Modern Life
. comic strip. Despite Schulz's celebrity, few scholarly books on his work and career have been published. This collection serves as a foundation for future study not only of Charles Schulz (1922-2000) but, more broadly, of the understudied medium of newspaper comics.. popularity grew, Schulz had opportunities to shape the iconography, style, and philosophy of modern life in ways he never could have imagined when he began the strip in 1950. Edited by leading scholars Jared Gardner and Ian Gordon, this volume ranges over a spectrum of Schulz's accomplishments and influence, touching on everything from cartoon aesthetics to the marketing of global fast food. Philosophy, ethics, and cultural history all come into play. Indeed, the book even highlights Snoopy's global reach as American soft power.. offers the most comprehensive and diverse study of the most influential cartoonist during the second half of the twentieth century.
This valuable volume of essays on Schulz’s work reminds us of the importance of going back repeatedly to those deceptively simple strokes of the pencil in search of the new insights they can still hold for us.
Over half a century after its debut, Charles Schulz's deceptively sophisticated . but also to comics studies, literary analysis, and beyond.
Charles M. Schulz, many of us believe, was the greatest cartoonist of the twentieth century, but it is inarguable that the characters in his comic strip, Peanuts, have become icons of American culture. Just how powerful and influential they were can be partially measured by the lucid and thoughtful essays in this intelligently edited volume in the Critical Approaches to Comics Artists Series. They set a high standard for the critical analyses and scholarly appreciations sure to follow.
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