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Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos
New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
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- English
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eBook - ePub
Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos
New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
About this book
HONORABLE MENTION RECIPIENT FOR THE 2024 CHARLES HATFIELD BOOK PRIZE FROM THE COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY
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, andāabove allāso 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 Peanuts in markedly unfamiliar ways. Drawing on a wide array of interpretive lenses, Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos invites readers to revisit, reexamine, and rethink characters that have been household names for generations. Through this process, the chapters demonstrate not only how Schulz's work remains a subject of acute critical interest more than twenty years after the final strip appeared, but also how it embodies a rich and fertile site of social, cultural, and political meaning.
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, andāabove allāso 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 Peanuts in markedly unfamiliar ways. Drawing on a wide array of interpretive lenses, Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos invites readers to revisit, reexamine, and rethink characters that have been household names for generations. Through this process, the chapters demonstrate not only how Schulz's work remains a subject of acute critical interest more than twenty years after the final strip appeared, but also how it embodies a rich and fertile site of social, cultural, and political meaning.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Character Studies: The Peanuts Gang, Reconsidered
- Chapter 1. āSometimes My Hand Shakes So Much I Have to Hold My Wrist to Drawā: Charles M. Schulz and Disability
- Chapter 2. Whatās the Frequency, Charlie Brown?: Sound Waves, Music, and the Zigzag Shirt
- Chapter 3. āWhy Canāt I Have a Normal Dog Like Everyone Else?ā: Snoopy as Canineāand Feline
- Chapter 4. I Love Lucy: The Fussbudget and the First Lady of Sitcoms
- Chapter 5. Franklin and Pig-Pen: The Aesthetics of Blackness and Dirt
- Chapter 6. Chirping āBout my Generation: Woodstock, Youth Culture, and Innocence
- Epilogue. Peanuts to Watch Out for: Linus Van Pelt, Alison Bechdel, and the Legacy of Charles M. Schulz
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- About the Author