Only What's Necessary

Only What's NecessaryCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781419783333 Year: 2025 Publisher: ABRAMS Description: The Eisner Awardnominated tribute to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulzrepackaged for the beloved strips 75th anniversary Charles M. Schulz (19222000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only whats necessary. For 50 years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781419783333
Year: 2025
Publisher: ABRAMS


Description:
The Eisner Award–nominated tribute to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz—repackaged for the beloved strip’s 75th anniversary




Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what’s necessary. For 50 years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips were published, making it “arguably the longest story ever told by one human being,” according to Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. For Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, renowned designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Reproducing the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What’s Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work—much of which has never been seen before.