TDC’s Occasional Peanuts and Charles M. Schulz Roundup
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In two weeks, on February 13, it will be twenty-five years since the last new Peanuts comic strip appeared. Later this Fall, on October 2, everyone will be celebrating the debut of cartoonists’ cartoonist Charles M. Schulz‘s magnum opus seventy five years earlier. So these collections of Peanuts and Charles Schulz items may very well be more frequent as the year progresses. That said…
Peanuts Still Thrives 25 Years After the Last Original Comic Strip
He is an outcast, a loser. He is grim, often demoralized and sometimes downright sad. He mourns every lost game and openly suffers unrequited love for a girl apparently unaware of his existence. Since Charlie Brown debuted in “Peanuts” in October 1950, he has been a rare comic child—neither amusingly mischievous nor a foil for grouchy grandparents.
Even his dog, the charismatic and beloved Snoopy, outdoes him.
Alice George for Smithsonian Magazine spotlights events showing the popularity of the comic strip characters during its original 50 year run and continuing in the 25 years since.
Today, Peanuts Worldwide, which owns the “Peanuts” characters, has millions of followers across its social platforms, where “Peanuts” comic strips, graphics and clips are regularly shared. At the same time, the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, welcomes guests to explore the artist’s life and work.
Santa Rosa Museum Is Like Stepping Into Your Favorite Comic Strip
Imagine a place where happiness is measured in zigzags, and the world’s most beloved beagle greets you at every turn.
Welcome to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, where the magic of “Peanuts” comes to life in ways that will make your inner child do a happy dance.
Liam Lavigne at Family Destinations Guide offers what may be the most extensive tour of The Charles M. Schulz Museum, both inside and out, and the holdings and displays available to visitors.
As you wander through the exhibits, you’ll find yourself surrounded by original comic strips, interactive displays, and enough Peanuts memorabilia to make Linus clutch his blanket in excitement.
The museum’s architecture is a work of art in itself, designed to reflect Schulz’s clean, simple style.
Only What’s Necessary 75th Anniversary Edition
The Eisner Award–nominated tribute to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz—repackaged for the beloved strip’s 75th anniversary.
Abrams Comic Art is issuing the Third Edition of the Chip Kidd/Geoff Spear book Only What’s Necessary.
Reproducing the best of the Peanuts newspaper strip, all shot from the original art by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear, Only What’s Necessary also features exclusive, rare, and unpublished original art and developmental work—much of which has never been seen before.
Warning!
This is on eBay listed for $6500. In my opinion it’s is not a real Schulz sketch. Several reasons…
People wanting original Charles Schulz original art should be aware that scammers will be offering fakes for sale. It has always been a problem and will certainly increase during the 75th anniversary publicity.
Here Matt Barnett at the Collectors of Original Comic Strip and Cartoon Artwork Facebook page gives warning with others chiming in on telltale signs of forgeries.
Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas Peanuts
In the series, she was first mentioned in 1959, and Cathy Steinberg was the first to voice Sally in 1965. But the character was voiced by so many actors when the series was turned into an animation, and one of them is pretty wellknown.
Katie-Ann Gupwell at The Mirror lists those who voiced Charlie Brown’s sister Sally taking special note of one.
She was just nine when she provided the voice of Sally Brown in two “Peanuts” specials. It’s a golden piece of TV trivia that often leaves many people stunned.
What Happened to Pig Pen
When it comes to the Peanuts comics, we think of certain characters more than others. Obviously Snoopy and Charlie Brown are the focal point of the comics, but there are other well-known characters that come to mind as well.
One character that many comic readers might remember is Pig Pen.
Kimberley Spinney for Dog o’ Day answers the question of Pig Pen disappearing from the Peanuts comic strip. Which seems to be accepted Peanuts history by some though his last appearance was just five months before the end of the strip. Pig Pen seems out of place when grouped with others that completely disappeared.
Tracking the 75th Anniversary of Peanuts
Happy New Year, all you AAUGH Blog Readers! 2025 has come, like it or not, and it brings with it the 75th anniversary of Peanuts!
Will there be book projects? Well, there are always book projects, I don’t expect that I will ever live to see a year without some new Peanuts book project. But will there be specifically 75th-anniversary projects? That seems likely, and I’ve heard something that suggests there may, but nothing’s been announced yet. [That Only What’s Necessary book being a re-issue.]
I received a request that I promote a 75th anniversary bobblehead. Now, I’ve not accepted all such requests in the past, I’ve even told the bobblehead folks that I was unlikely to cover anything unless is was fairly directly relevant to this book-oriented board.
But I took a look at what they sent me, and I looked at the base…it reprints a strip. Sure, it’s not a book, but it reprints just as many strips as the book Here Comes Charlie Brown! A Peanuts Pop-Up. In fact, it reprints the exact same strip as that book.
Nat Gertler at the AAUGH blog will keep us apprised of what will be forthcoming, like this Charlie Brown bobblehead, during this Diamond Anniversary Year of Peanuts, especially those with spines and covers.
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