Blockheads Beagles and Sweet Babboos

<i>Blockheads Beagles and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts </i>sheds new light on the past importance ongoing significance and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz's <i>Peanuts</i>. More specifically it examines a fundamental feature of the series: its core cast of characters. In chapters devoted to Charlie Brown Snoopy Lucy Franklin Pigpen Woodstock and Linus author Michelle Ann Abate explores the figures who made Schulz's strip so successful so influential and--above all--so beloved. In so doing the book gives these iconic figures the in-depth critical attention that they deserve and for which they are long overdue. <p/> Abate considers the exceedingly familiar characters from <i>Peanuts</i> in markedly unfamiliar ways. Drawing on a wide array of interpretive lenses <i>Blockheads Beagles and Sweet Babboos</i> invites readers to revisit reexamine and rethink characters that have been household names for generations. Through this process the chapters demonstrate not only how Schulz's work remains a subject of acute critical interest more than twenty years after the final strip appeared but also how it embodies a rich and fertile site of social cultural and political meaning.