Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Philosophy and Poetics
1 Peppermint Patty's Desire Charles Schulz and the Queer Comics of Failure Ben Saunders 13
2 "There Has to Be Something Deeply Symbolic in That" Peanuts and the Sublime Anne C. McCarthy 29
3 Saying, Showing, and Schulz The Typography and Notation of Peanuts Roy T. Cook 42
Identity and Performance
4 Consuming Childhood Peanuts and Children's Consumer Culture in the Postwar Era Lara Saguisag 65
5 "How Can We Lose When We're So Sincere?" Varieties of Sincerity in Peanuts Leonie Brialey 79
6 "I Thought I Was Winning in the Game of Life … But There Was a Flag on the Play" Sport in Charles Schulz's Peanuts Jeffrey O. Segrave 93
Peanuts and History
7 Footballs and Ottim Liffs Charlie Brown in Coconino Michael Tisserand 111
8 Schulz and the Late Sixties Snoopy's Signs of the Times Joseph J. Darowski 121
9 Franklin and the Early 1970s Christopher P. Lehman 133
Transmedial Peanuts
10 Making a World for All of God's Children A Charlie Brown Christmas and the Aesthetics of Doubt and Faith Ben Novotny Owen 149
11 Charles Schulz, Comic Art, and Personal Value M. J. Clarke 165
12 Charlie Brown Cafés and the Marketing of Peanuts in Asia Ian Gordon 183
13 Chips Off the Ol' Blockhead Evidence of Influence in Peanuts Parodies Gene Kannenberg Jr. 197
Contributors 213
Index 217