Highest Paid Dead Cartoonists

D. D. Degg November 2, 2021 1 minute 2 comments

Forbes has released its Highest Paid Dead Celebrities list for 2021
and two cartoonists make it to the top five of the thirteen noted.

The Peanuts business brought in $47 million more in revenue this fiscal year compared to 2020, for a total of $157 million. Part of that comes from a deal with Apple TV+, where the second season of Snoopy in Space! is set to start streaming on Friday, Nov. 12…

Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss) sold almost 7 million print books in the U.S. over the last year—despite controversy about racist imagery in some of his early works—up from 6 million copies in 2020…

Bonus: a nice illustration by Chris Buzelli:

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Katherine Collins

In the bottom picture: who’s the guy in the middle? Harvey Kurtzman?

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Roald Dahl
“In September, 31 years after Dahl died of cancer at age 74, Netflix paid a reported $684 million for the Roald Dahl Story Company. The streaming giant plans to build out a sweeping flood of programming from the British novelist’s trove of stories including Charlie, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda and scores more.”
He and Prince bumped Michael Jackson down to #3.

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Highest Paid Dead Cartoonists

The Peanuts business brought in $47 million more in revenue this fiscal year compared to 2020, for a total of $157 million. Part of that comes from a deal with Apple TV+, where the second season of Snoopy in Space! is set to start streaming on Friday, Nov. 12…

Theodor Seuss Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss) sold almost 7 million print books in the U.S. over the last year—despite controversy about racist imagery in some of his early works—up from 6 million copies in 2020…

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