Customer Review: '741.5 SCH' That may be gibberish to some, but to me, it was the dewey-decimal system location of the Peanuts strips in my Elementary school library. I really gained my love of Peanuts from those library-bound books, but always remembered coming back to 'The Peanuts Jubilee,' which was (at the... more info
Customer Review: Many memorable stories here:Snoopy on the moon, Lucy feeds Schroeder's piano to the kite-eating tree, the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm scenario of a protest against that stupidest war, Vietnam Bloody War. Alas, from now on the Peanuts Gang shall be progressively more neglected in favour of Snoopy's fancy... more info
Customer Review: This is one of the better Opus collections. I love the others ones I've owned in the past and this one is the start of my new collection.
Customer Review: The controversy over the damage that comic books can do to young impressionable minds in the 1950's is a very important historical counterpoint to know about. This is the age of McCarthy, schools teaching kids to drop and roll in the case of nuclear attack, Russia on the war path, Prague Spring, and... more info
Customer Review: Maus was a very engaging book. From the beginning I was pulled into the story. Maus is written in a very unique way. Art Spiegelman drew the Jews as mice, the Nazis as cats, and the Poles as pigs. Art Spiegelman told the story from the perspective of his father telling the story through an interview... more info
Customer Review: I purchased this book for my husband and he was VERY PLEASED. I had overheard he and a buddy discussing the war cartoons and I was able to find them with a Google search.My husband was also impressed with the workmanship of the volumes.
Customer Review: My guess -- and it's nothing more -- is that the truth lies somewhere between the claims of Schulz's children (who want to protect their late father) and Michaelis (who, as others have pointed out, seemed to first formulate his thesis, then write the book in such a way as to support it).
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