On Leif Erikson Day, we celebrate their remarkable journey and the brave Viking culture that lies at the core of the New World's passion for discovery and determination to tackle unimaginable ...challenges. To honor Leif Erikson and celebrate our Nordic-American heritage, the Congress, by joint resolution (Public Law 88-566) approved on September 2, 1964, has authorized the President of the United States to proclaim October 9 of each year as "Leif Erikson Day."
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On August 17, 2002, the Charles M. Schulz Museum opened in Santa Rosa, California. This museum celebrates the life and work of Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip, which he drew from 1950 to ...2000.
The publisher of the Complete Peanuts series scored a major publicity coup when it snagged President Obama to pen an introduction for the latest volume, but the book's genuine significance lies in ...the fact that it marks the conclusion of the landmark project reprinting the entire 50-year run of the much-loved newspaper strip (a "bonus" volume will collect Charles M.
The latest of Fantagraphics' gorgeous Peanuts collections is guaranteed to fly off shelves faster than usual, centering as it does on the strip's true star, Snoopy, battling his perennially unseen ...archenemy. Charles M. Schulz's characters are indelibly etched in our cultural history, his large-headed, emotive tykes among the most beloved figures for all ages.
The two qualities of the Sunday funnies that made them more appealing than their weekday counterparts were their vivid colors and their oversize format. Those attributes are effectively replicated in ...this series of coffee-table books reprinting the Sunday installments of Charles M. Schulz's much-loved classic.
Although Fantagraphics' ongoing project reprinting Peanuts entire 50-year run has been a welcome endeavor, something was missing: to match the daily strips, the Sunday episodes appeared in black and ...white at a much-reduced size. A new, complementary series from the publisher rectifies this by collecting the Sunday episodes in a full-color, coffee-table format.
When the Peanuts newspaper strip began its five-decade run, in 1950, good ol' Charlie Brown was the undisputed focus. But gradually, as his beagle, Snoopy, grew more anthropomorphic and his humanlike ...thoughts became verbalized in balloons, the insouciant canine became the strip's most popular character.
