Charles M. Schulz created Peanuts, the long-running comic strip featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Peppermint Patty and their friends. Collections bring together short strips about school, baseball, unrequited affection, the Great Pumpkin, Snoopy's imaginative personas and Charlie Brown's repeated attempts to keep going after minor defeats. The humour is simple on the surface but often turns on anxiety, loneliness, confidence and the gap between children's large thoughts and small surroundings. Snoopy's fantasy life as a flying ace or novelist gives the strip another layer of absurdity. The natural catalogue links are classic comic strips, family humour, illustrated gift books and all-ages cartoon collections. Read more Less