Only What's Necessary

by Chip Kidd
Category: "Arts and Entertainment"
Pages:314
Year of Publication:2015
Date Added:06/27/2026
Date Read:06/27/2026
Notes:Subtitle: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts

A look at the art of Schulz through rough sketches of his comic strips and work he did on other strips and in advertising.
My Rating: 6

Reviews for Only What's Necessary

Review - Only What's Necessary

About two-thirds of this book is filled with proofs of Peanuts comic strips, which look just like they did in the newspapers, only on brownish paper. While I always enjoy reading Peanuts strips, that didn't seem worth a separate book. The other third contains Schulz's Peanuts art and other non-Peanuts drawings, and that was interesting. In a few places, the author gave explanations of how Schulz came up with ideas and stories of his non-Peanuts projects.
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