So apparently there was once a female Charlie Brown named Charlotte Braun, but she wasn’t very popular and Schulz wasn’t happy with her. That didn’t stop him, however, from responding to a letter criticizing her by telling an irate letter writer that “you and your friends will have the death of an innocent child on your conscience” and then drawing a picture of Braun with an axe in her head. (Via)
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Roasted Peanuts
Apr 16 2009 — 1:54am
MetaFilter points us to Roasted Peanuts, a blog that is taking advantage of the fact that it is now possible to read every single Peanuts cartoon ever published online by going through them, exploring some of the recurring themes and techniques Sparky Schulz used, as well as how characters and jokes developed. The MeFi thread also uncovers links to Schulz’s earlier project, Li’l Folks, which he published in the Pioneer Press for three years between 1947 and 1950s, and reads as a sort of test run for Peanuts.
Schulz was a brilliant, it's just that the main comic themes are so familiar we take them for granted.
‘Peanuts’ scholars find messages in cartoon’s scores
Jan 15 2009 — 7:54am
From the IHT is an article that explores some of the minutia surrounding Peanuts’ most talented citizen: Schroeder. Did you know the notes that often appeared above Shroeder’s head were from Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata? That Charles Schulz and his classmates collected classical music while students at their Minneapolis art school?
It’s a shame the Santa Rosa, CA, exhibit referenced in the article is closing Jan. 26th. Perhaps the Childrens’ Museum would consider hosting something similar?
Dammit, it was a typo, baker.
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