Only What'S Necessary
Chip Kidd
Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000) believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what's necessary. For 50 years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts, the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips were published, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Robert Thompson, professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. For Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts, renowned designer Chip Kidd was granted unprecedented access to the extraordinary archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. Reproducing the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip,all shot from the art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What's Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished art and developmental work - much of which has never been seen before.
Stan Lee (1922–2018) was a writer, editor, comic book creator, and the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. Jack Kirby (1917–1994) created or co-created some of comic books' most popular characters including Captain America, the X-Men, the Hulk, the Fantastic Four, the Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and the New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. Chip Kidd is a graphic designer and writer, and editor at large for Pantheon. A three-time Eisner Award winner, he has written and designed more than a dozen books on comics. He lives in New York. Walter Mosley is one of our most celebrated and beloved writers, whose books have won numerous awards and have been translated into more than 20 languages. He lives in New York. Tom Brevoort is the executive editor and senior vice president of publishing at Marvel Comics, most notably on the New Avengers, Civil War, and Fantastic Four. As of 2020, Brevoort has become Marvel's longest-serving editor. He lives in New York. Mark Evanier is a comic book writer and historian and author of the award-winning monograph Kirby: King of Comics. He has three Emmy Award nominations and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for animation from the Writers Guild of America. He lives in Los Angeles. Geoff Spear is an award-winning photographer. His photographs have appeared on the cover and in the pages of Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, the New York Times Magazine, and many others. He lives in New York.
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