Blockheads, beagles, and sweet babboos : new perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts / Michelle Ann Abate.
"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...
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University Press of Mississippi,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Character studies: the Peanuts gang, reconsidered
- "Sometimes my hand shakes so much I have to hold my wrist to draw": Charles M. Schulz and disability
- What's the frequency, Charlie Brown?: sound waves, music, and the zigzag shirt
- "Why can't I have normal dog like everyone else?": Snoopy as canine
- and feline
- I love Lucy: the fussbudget and the first lady of sitcoms
- Franklin and Pig-Pen: the aesthetics of Blackness and dirt
- Chirping 'bout 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.