Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz – And In The End The Love
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Charles Schulz was probably the most adored cartoonist ever and his Peanuts comic strip more loved than any other. Twenty-five years ago we lost both of them. Peanuts ending was front page news above the fold.
Of newspapers not carrying the story on page one most that carried the strip at least had a notice in the ears above the nameplate.
Inside the newspapers was one or two full pages about the end and the history of Peanuts, sometimes three pages. As noted above The Atlanta Journal-Constitution went all-out wrapping their broadsheet Sunday comics section in “a very special 4-[broadsheet]page Peanuts keepsake.”
The ending of Peanuts was so historic it even brought the famously reclusive Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes fame out to praise Charles Schulz and Charlie Brown.
As bad as the news of Peanuts ending was at least we had been warned and had a couple months to prepare. But there was unexpectedly worse news for newspaper readers on the west coast whose newspapers actually published on Sundays and carried Saturday night events.
Twenty-five years ago today was a very bad day for comic strip fans.
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