The Complete Peanuts 1999-2000 Comics & Stories: Gift Box Set - Hardcover: 0

The Peanuts dailies don't have the same cultural importance to any UK readers that they have for US readers: we may have affection for Schulz's troupe of little Americans, but our affection was born in the cartoons, or compilations, or full-colour strips. Fantagraphics' amazing run of 26 volumes has therefore been for the most part an unnecessary purchase except for the most rabid collector; I'd recommend most readers to aim instead for the glorious full colour of the same publisher's series of [(Peanuts Every Sunday : The 1950s Gift Box Set)] [By (author) Charles M Schulz] published on (December, 2015) which will do very nicely. That said, I had to write a separate review for this gift set of volumes 25-26 because it really is special and deserves your consideration even if you're not going along for the full ride in B&W. About half of volume 25 represents the final dailies, then the other half contains the full run of Li'l Folks, which was the strip that Schulz wrote prior to Peanuts and that paved the way for it. This half volume is comparable to the Walt Before Skeezix (Walt and Skeezix) volume: a study of origins that will be fascinating for any comic book reader. The other volume here collects single stories and ephemera: it is not complete, but it gathers so much together that it is pretty much essential for a Peanuts reader, whether or not you have the houseroom, cash or tenacity to go for the entire 26-volume run. They really save the best for last with this series.

Its Peanuts, you know Charlie Brown and the gang, what is there not to like, if you know who Charlie brown is then good on you, you know how much enjoyment there is in reading peanuts and if you don't know who we are talking about, what have you done with your life, live under a rock!! come on read Peanuts and have a smile on your face.

Completes my set.

love it

Awesome book, great to read. Very happy with purchase.

Peanutsの集大成！ コアなファンはもちろん、初めて読む人にもオススメ。 ただ、標準的な英語力かそれ以上は求められる。 私は高校の授業で使用しました。 ハードカバーなので、ペーパーブックとは違い、永久保存版です。 汚さずに読んでいきたい本。

ok

I had mixed feelings about the arrival of this book on my doorstep. I was rapt as ever to have more Peanuts to read but I knew it was the end of an era of annually getting one of these amazing two volume four year sets. I feel that Peanuts went through a resurgence in the late 80's and 90's as it was sometimes not as sharp and observational in the late 70's and early 80's. That's what I feel anyway. The quality of these strips is very high though they are not as acidic and cruelly funny as they could be in the late 50's and 60's heyday. Less ranting from Lucy who is not as strident particularly and she accepts jibes at her baseball shortcomings. Charlie is not complaining that his stomach hurts or about depression and he is no longer so hapless. Snoopy is used in numerous ways from being quite dog like laying on Charlies lap running on all fours etc to being a Revolutionary war soldier, a Fighter pilot, a french legionairre etc ... He seemed to be used in a more flexible way in this era and Re-Run is a very prominent character and his longing for a dog can be added to the unrequited desires of the strip. The strips often have a bittersweet tone and surrealistic or visual gags like Snoopy rounding up Schroeder's music notes and Spike (who I love) is often in wistful scenes with his cactus or walking a tumbleweed like a pet dog.The quality of the drawing is first class and though I love the drawing in all eras of Peanuts there is a particularly fluent use of line and the strips are a fraction busier than in its earliest days. One of the last strips is classic Schulz with Charlie Brown confessing that he wouldn't know what to do if he ever received a longed for love letter. The main volume is completed by a set of Li'l Folks cartoons from before Peanuts and these are good rather than great but they did set the scene and helped develop the themes Schulz used so brilliantly in Peanuts. There is an accompanying volume full of interesting material including Schulz's strips for the comic he was assisted with. These long form stories are terrific. there are also ads for Ford Kodak and a bread company and all this material is good too. Overall an outstanding finale to the incredible complete publishing of the greatest comic strip that has ever existed.Oh well I think I will start the series over again.

Lindo ! Recomendo!