How he daringly chose themes never before attempted in mainstream cartoons - loneliness, isolation, melancholy, the unending search for love - always lightening the darker side with laughter and mingling the old-fashioned sweetness of childhood with a very adult and modern awareness of the bitterness of life. It is the most American of stories: How a barber's son grew up from modest beginnings to realize his dream of creating a newspaper comic strip. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts: at once a creation story, a portrait of a native genius, and a chronicle contrasting the private man with the central role he played in shaping the national imagination. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. A remainder mark at the lower page edge (see photographs). Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and Peanuts comic strips. Includes Dedication Acknowledgments Source Notes and Index. As new condition black boards with yellow spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket.
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