{"product_id":"the-complete-peanuts-1955-1958-gift-box-set-hardcover-9781560976875","title":"The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958: Gift Box Set - Hardcover","description":"This book gathers 730 daily and Sunday comic strips, the vast majority of which are not currently available in any in-print \"Peanuts\" collection, and over 100 of which have never been reprinted since their initial appearance in papers over 50 years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGroening, Matt:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMatt Groening\u003c\/strong\u003e (b. 1954) is an Emmy Award-winner, best known for co-creating animated TV series such as \u003cem\u003eThe Simpsons\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFuturama\u003c\/em\u003e. He also created the long-running alt-weekly strip \u003cem\u003eLife In Hell\u003c\/em\u003e for which he won a Reuben Award (2002) by the National Cartoonist Society.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFranzen, Jonathan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJonathan Franzen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a National Book Award and James Tait Black Memorial Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist, and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchulz, Charles M.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eCharles M. Schulz \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born November 25, 1922, in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip \u003cem\u003eBarney Google\u003c\/em\u003e). His ambition from a young age was to be a cartoonist and his first success was selling 17 cartoons to the \u003cem\u003eSaturday Evening Post\u003c\/em\u003e between 1948 and 1950. He also sold a weekly comic feature called \u003cem\u003eLi'l Folks\u003c\/em\u003e to the local \u003cem\u003eSt. Paul Pioneer Press\u003c\/em\u003e. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates and in the spring of 1950, United Feature Syndicate expressed interest in \u003cem\u003eLi'l Folks\u003c\/em\u003e. They bought the strip, renaming it \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e, a title Schulz always loathed. The first \u003cem\u003ePeanuts\u003c\/em\u003e daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952. Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day-and the day before his last strip was published, having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand -- an unmatched achievement in comics. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51777871610130,"sku":"9781560976875","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35b2b695-5d76-4b1a-96f1-1b62ebbaa2aa.jpg?v=1765363205","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-complete-peanuts-1955-1958-gift-box-set-hardcover-9781560976875","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}