Collectible Snoopy Peanuts Book All About Tennis with Intro by Billie Jean King

Collectible Snoopy Peanuts Paperback Book All about Tennis Intro by Billie Jean King 1st Edition, 1979 Wimbledon Very good condition. A wonderful tribute to tennis and to the gentleman who created Peanuts. Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922 in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google). In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It Or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post—as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates. In 1950 he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate that they were interested in his his submission. The first Peanuts appeared October 2, 1950. He completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand—an unmatched achievement in comics.