Comics’ Salute to Schulz – A Paean to Peanuts
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz birthday saw over 100 comic strips and panels pay tribute to the master cartoonist and creator of Peanuts.
The Schulz Museum’s “A Cartoonist Tribute” page linked to 92 of them.
Notable is Lynn Johnston coming out of retirement reworking a special For Better or For Worse
and Mary Worth reading the January 13, 1991 Sunday Peanuts strip.
But they missed a few syndicated tributes.
Surprisingly JumpStart, whose creator Robb Armstrong was involved with Mutts‘ Patrick McDonnell in putting the event together was left off the list. A couple other Andrews McMeel strips not included were Dark Side of the Horse and Doonesbury. Garry Trudeau made sure a Peanuts related strip was rerun today.
Rubes, from Creators Syndicate, was the only one from them not linked.
But completely overlooked was the Tribune Content Agency stable. Apparently no one notified The Schulz Museum about their strips. Animal Crackers, Bliss, Broom-Hilda, Gil Thorp, Pluggers, and Dick Tracy whose creators went full Schulz style.
And let’s make note that Arctic Circle, Big Nate, and Mt. Pleasant ran story arcs leading up to today, and Adam @ Home had a couple days building up (heh heh) to today (thanks Chris).
While Ripley’s Believe It or Not and Dave Granlund jumped the gun on the celebration.
A number of webcomics joined in the celebration.
From KFS is Rae the Doe and from Charles Brubaker is Lauren Ipsum.
The web comics honoring the day and the man from GoComics include Back in the Day, Birdbrains(?), Bob the Squirrel, Break of Day, Cathy Commisserations with Cathy Guisewite drawing a new one for Sparky, Eek, Frog Applause, Home Free, Mythtickle, Next Door Neighbors, Rabbits Against Magic, Rosebuds, Ten Cats, Tex, Working Daze, and 1 and Done.
I’m sure I’ve missed more than a few also.
Late add: Lum and Abner.
Late add: Jumble
Late add: Studio Jantze
Late add: Warped
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