The art and making of Peanuts animation

200 Pages·2012·105.36 MB·English

by  Solomon

The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation

The Art and
Making of
Peanuts
Animation
Charles Solomon
Foreword by Lee Mendelson
To the memories of Bill Littlejohn, Bill Melendez,
and Charles Schulz—three artists whose work
I continue to enjoy and whose company I miss.
CHARLES SOLOMON
Copyright © 2012 by Peanuts Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved. Permis-
sion to duplicate materials from Peanuts comic strips must be obtained
from Peanuts Worldwide, LLC. Permission to quote or reproduce for re-
views or notices must be obtained from the respective copyright holders.
Find Peanuts online at www.peanuts.com.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in
any form without written permission from the publisher. Half-title page:
Snoopy Come Home, 1972
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available. Artist unknown
ISBN 978-1-4521-2620-3 Red and blue pencil
Designed by MacFadden & Thorpe
Title page:
Publicity still, 1965
Chronicle Books LLC This page:
680 Second Street A Boy Named Charlie Brown Movie, 1969
San Francisco, California 94107 Artist unknown
www.chroniclebooks.com Ink, newsprint
CONTENTS
7 Foreword
8 Introduction:
From the Strip to the Screen
50 The ’50s and ’60s
98 The ’70s
134 The ’80s
162 The ’90s
172 After Sparky: 2000 & Beyond
186 Bibliography
188 Index
190 Acknowledgments
It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown, 1969
Production cel
6