From the Bookshelf: Peanuts Every Sunday 1971-1975

After buying four of the big volumes reprinting the Peanuts Sunday pages in colour, following up with the fifth in the series was easy enough to consider. I did, though, mention it on my Christmas list only to wind up buying it myself. It brought me to the halfway point, even if I had to face familiar ambiguities brushed by here and there about opinions pushed on what was yet to come, or what some seem to imply began in this volume itself. An awareness Charles M. Schulz got divorced and remarried in the first half of the 1970s and seemed to do better in his second marriage can get mixed up with excessively autobiographical readings of his comic strip and an impression of certain demands on it, although that then brings to mind a comment from Charlie Brown, back when he still had a bit of the smartalec attitude he'd started with, that the one thing that cheered him up was seeing someone else depressed.
( 'There was one that was all different shades of red..' )