25 Years of Peanuts: The Life and Work of Charles Schulz

Name: 25 Years of Peanuts: The Life and Work of Charles Schulz
Start: 2020-11-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-11-19T18:59:59-05:00
Location: On Demand

Author:

Chip Kidd, Paige Braddock, Charlie Kochman

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For 50 years, Charles Schulz told the story of a meek, nervous Charlie Brown and his young circle of friends, whose philosophical musings and complex humor captivated millions of readers. Peanuts is among the most popular and influential comic strips in history, helping to cement the four-panel gag strip as a standard, and Schulz remains one of the world’s most influential cartoonists. Join author and designer Chip Kidd, cartoonist Paige Braddock, and Abrams editorial director Charlie Kochman as they share their insights on Schulz’s life, work, and never-before-seen drawings from the recently published Only What’s Necessary 70th Anniversary Edition: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts.

Moderated by Charlie Kochman, editorial director at Abrams

Charlie Kochman

Charles Kochman is the Editorial Director of Abrams ComicArts and editor of the #1 bestselling series Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. For thirty-five years, Kochman has edited several hundred books for all age groups, including award-winning picture books, middle-grade novels, retrospectives, monographs, graphic novels, and art book collections published by Abrams, DC Comics, MAD magazine, Bantam Books, and Putnam. A member of the National Cartoonists Society, the Society of Illustrators, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Kochman is also a recipient of the Inkpot Award, presented by Comic-Con International for achievement in comics.

Paige Braddock

Paige Braddock is an Eisner-nominated artist and writer and the Chief Creative Officer at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates. She has illustrated several Peanuts children’s books; her other graphic novels for children include the Stinky Cecil series. She lives with her wife Evelyn and their two dogs and a cat in Sebastopol, California.

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd is an award-winning graphic designer, writer, and editor-at-large at Pantheon. His books on comics include Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz, Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross, and Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross. Charles M. Schulz believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what’s necessary. For 50 years, he wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In Only What’s Necessary 70th Anniversary Edition: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts (Abrams ComicArts) Kidd reproduces the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by photographer Geoff Spear, and give us a look behind the curtain featuring rare and unpublished original art and developmental work—much of which has never been seen before.

25 Years of Peanuts: The Life and Work of Charles Schulz