Only what's necessary
Subtitle: Charles M. Schulz and the art of Peanuts
By: Text, art direction, and design by Chip Kidd ; Photography by Geoff Spear ; Introduction by Jeff Kinney ; Additional text by Jean Schulz, Karen Johnson, and Paige Braddock ; Images courtesy of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center
Contributors: Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe), 1922-2000; Spear, Geoff, photographer; Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781419716393
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "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 fifty 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the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What's Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work--much of which has never been seen before"--