The Complete Peanuts Volume 6: 1961-1962 (COMPLETE PEANUTS HC)

I specifically started buying these books to see the strips about Linuses mom and her tangerine pool table. This book only had two strips on this topic. I remember back in early 70’s reading a paperback that had several strips on the pool table. Very vague memory but I’m still looking for them.

It gets better with every collection. This one has some great moments. Snoopy is coming up with new things to imitate. Of course, Lucy is still pulling the football away before Charlie Brown can kick it.Fredia appears for the first time with her naturally curly hair. She is always trying to get Snoppy to chase rabbits.My favorite strip was in January of 1962. Lucy gives the ultimate ultimatum. She declares she wants the world fixed by the time she is eighteen. Only Lucy could say that.I can't wait to read another collection of the Peanuts.

Here we have Charles M. Schulz at his height. The Peanuts world is almost complete, with the main caste of characters set: Charlie Brown the neurotic, Linus the philosopher, Lucy the loudmouth, and Snoopy the . . . well, Snoopy. Other characters include the original Shermy, Violet, and Patty, who are beginning to fade away, Schroeder, who is playing Beethoven with ever greater intensity, and little Sally, who must have had one of the fastest infancies in history! The newest character is Frieda with the naturally curly hair. Frieda caused one of Schulz's few missteps, when he had her introduce a cat (which he then realized, too late, that he couldn't draw) which made Snoopy act too much like a real dog. Fortunately Schulz realized the problem right away, and Faron the cat only appears in a few strips.The old standbys are here: the Great Pumpkin, Lucy and the football, the hapless baseball team, and Snoopy's rich fantasy life. I also enjoyed the random references to American life in the early 1960s: especially an eerie strip from 1962 in which the kids speculate on the possibility of the Bomb dropping, with Lucy screaming "Don't Say It!" Schulz could not have known that that October the world would come closer than ever before or since to nuclear holocaust, so this is further evidence that Peanuts' popularity stems from its links, conscious and unconscious, to our own inner lives and fears.Its hard to wait six months or so between volumes in this series, but we can endure it in happy anticipation of the advent of treasures yet to be revealed, such as the first time Snoopy climbs into that Sopwith Camel

I believe I've written a review of every volume issued so far in the Complete Peanuts series that it is hard to say anything more glowing than I already have. Now we begin the 1960's, when the strip hit its stride. Linus seems to be more the focus of the strip during this time with his need for glasses (which didn't last that long as it turns out)and Lucy's various attempts to get Linus to lose the blanket. But all of the main cast sees some serious strip time in this book. Schulz also introduces Frida to the strip along with her cat Faron. I think he was hoping to make these characters more prevalent than they ended up being in the strip (Faron didn't last long and Frida was a minor character for most of the 1960's and appeared sporatically in later years).But what surprised me is that there were still quite a few strips in this book that I had never seen before, which really shocked me. I thought as we got into the 1960's I would have seen 95%-98% of the strips, but I would guess that number to be only 80% in reality. That's a pleasant surprise and one that I hope continues for the rest of the 1960s books.So again, five stars for a great book. Only 19 more books and 10 more years to go to complete the series!

Mr. Sparky is one of my all time artistic heroes. I was reading these strips with my wife a couple of nights ago. After reflecting to myself that I enjoyed these strips with my mother when I was younger, my wife tells me that she used to read them with her mother. They're both Italian.There is so much shared experience in Peanuts, generations of fans all familiar with the iconic art and story themes. Magic.I personally also obsess over the quality of the art, which amuses my wife. The line quality is just right, the level of detail is just right, simple, expressive, charming... it just has to be the way that it is, never too much or to little. And it remains amazingly consistent over the decades of it's production.

If your like me, a huge Peanuts fan, you probably have been collecting these since they started to be released as Box Sets. Now a Kindle Version has been released which would have been my first choice if it was available back in 2004 when these started to be released. But sadly I just found out from Amazon, even though The Box Set books are the "EXACT" same books as these Kindle Edition books only in bundles of 2 Volumes, They don't qualify for the 2.99 Kindle Match Price. So Everybody like me who started collecting these Box Sets, if they want the Kindle Edition they have to buy the entire book twice at full price. I don't know how many people bought the single volumes VS the Collector Box Sets, but Im betting more of us bought the Box Sets, like digital Music and digital Video, here we go again buying the same book "twice" when the format changes to digital. If your a kindle reader you may as well save your money and "ONLY" buy the Kindle version. I guess I won't be buying any more hard covers, I hope at least the publisher has the ethics and decency to get the kindle version caught up to the current hardcover version if they are going to force all its loyal customers to buy it twice.

What an amazing set of books. The peanuts complete gathers up all of the news paper strips and places them into wonderful 2 year volumes. Each Volume is a hard cover with beautiful book cover. High quality binding and paper go into these. I cannot imagine these volumes being any better. All of the classic peanuts strips you love gathered together in a nice 2 year volume! A wonderful addition to any library

Volume six in the series of books that collect all the cartoon strips of the classic newspaper cartoon 'Peanuts.' With Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and all the others.This volume contains all of them from the years 1961 and 1962. It follows the same format as the earlier five. With three four picture daily strips on a page, and the full page sunday strips taking up a page themselves.The month and year of each lot of strips is down the bottom of the page.The whole volume is fully indexed.It ends with a two page history of the cartoonist, which is in every volume.And it begins with a three page introduction from Diana Krall.Peanuts was utterly consistent by this time, and had been for a fair few years. And the strips here keep that up. Oddly, when it began it was Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Patty and Shermy. And now it becomes largely about Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and Linus. Other characters tend to only pop up every so often. Especially Shermy, who is now almost just only in baseball team crowd scenes.Pig Pen only pops up sporadically. Sally isn't seen for a long time, then it does successfully grow her up a bit. But we do get to meet Frieda and her naturally curly hair, then her cat Faron. They both fit in really well.This one does also contain early regular great pumpkin runs, and although its a few years before Woodstock shows up, there are some prototype snoopy and bird strips here.But all in all, it's consistently funny and fun throughout. In another great volume that more than does these cartoons justice.

Forgotten just how good Peanuts was. Had a few books as a kid and loved it. Now I’m grown up (well, old) I can afford to buy ALL the books and that’s what I’m doing. Amazing to see how the characters started out and how they developed within a few years into their unique and well-known personalities. The format of the books is very good - 2 years per volume, great design and reproduction.

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.

I love peanuts books and am collecting the complete series, they never fail to bring a smile to my face.

Nearly every day, I read one of the Peanuts columns, and I love them. Years ago, I liked Peanuts, but now, I feel like I understand Peanuts. Then again, maybe I understood Peanuts then, and now, I understand a different Peanuts.