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Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. "Peanuts" is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At its peak in the mid- to late 1960s, "Peanuts" ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.
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In addition to the strip and numerous books, the "Peanuts" characters have appeared in animated form on television numerous times. This started when the Ford Motor Company licensed the characters in early 1959 for a series of color television commercials for its automobiles and intros for "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show" which they sponsored. While the show ended in 1961, the deal lasted another three years. The ads were animated by Bill Meléndez for Playhouse Pictures, a cartoon studio that had Ford as a client. Schulz and Meléndez became friends, and when producer Lee Mendelson decided to make a two-minute animated sequence for a TV documentary called "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" in 1963, he brought on Meléndez for the project.
Freckles and His Friends
In May 1915, 23-year-old Merrill Blosser began working for the Chicago syndicate Newspaper Enterprise Association, initially drawing cartoons based on news events. That summer he began drawing five comics features. One of these, titled "Freckles", began as a one-column daily gag panel on August 16, 1915. that expanded into a full comic strip and was retitled "Freckles and His Friends" on September 20, 1915. One by one, Blosser dropped each of the other single-panel comics, and in July 1916, he began another strip, "Miniature Movies", which soon became "Chestnut Charlie", continuing until early in 1918. At that point, Blosser then dedicated himself exclusively to the production of "Freckles and His Friends".
Charlie Brown
His name was first used on May 30, 1948, in an early Schulz comic strip called "Lil’ Folks" in which one boy has buried another in a sandbox and then denies that he has seen the other boy ("Charlie Brown") when asked. He made his official debut in the first "Peanuts" comic strip on October 2, 1950. The strip features Charlie Brown walking by, as two other children named Shermy and Patty look at him. Shermy refers to him as "Good Ol' Charlie Brown" as he passes by, but then immediately reveals his hatred toward him once he is gone on the last panel. During the strip's early years, Charlie Brown was much more playful than he is known for, as he often played pranks and jokes on the other characters. On December 21 of the same year, his signature zig-zag T-shirt appeared; formerly, he only wore a plain one. On the March 6, 1951, strip, Charlie Brown first appears to play baseball, as he was warming up before telling Shermy that they can start the game; however, he was the catcher, not yet the pitcher.
Mr. Peanut
Planters Peanut Company was founded in 1906, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, by Amedeo Obici and was incorporated two years later as the Planters Nut and Chocolate Company. The factory in Wilkes-Barre has since closed down. In 1916 a young schoolboy, Antonio Gentile, submitted drawings of an anthropomorphic peanut to a design contest. After Gentile's design was chosen, the commercial artist Andrew S. Wallach added the monocle, top hat and cane to create the iconic image. While Gentile's family originally received five dollars for winning the contest, Obici befriended them and paid Antonio’s, and four of his siblings', way through college. After Obici paid Antonio's way through medical school, he became a doctor in Newport News, where he died of a heart attack in 1939.
Patty (Peanuts)
By 1966, Schulz had recycled the "Patty" moniker for a new character, "Peppermint" Patty Reichardt. Although the original Patty — or at least unnamed girls who bear a strong resemblance to her — would make cameo appearances throughout the run of Peanuts, she had disappeared as a featured character by the mid-1970s, but she continued making cameo appearances as late as the 90's. Her last appearance was a rerun of a 1992 strip which was republished on November 27, 1997. Schulz claimed he drew Patty in the March 2, 1994 strip in which she wants Snoopy to chase rabbits with her (a role previously usually taken by Frieda), although some fans have stated that the girl in the strip in question does not resemble Patty.
Doughnut
The first known printed use of "donut" was in "Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa" by George W. Peck, published in 1900, in which a character is quoted as saying, "Pa said he guessed he hadn't got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut." According to John T. Edge ("Donuts, an American passion" 2006) the alternative spelling "donut" was invented when the New York–based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment. The donut spelling also showed up in a "Los Angeles Times" article dated August 10, 1929 in which Bailey Millard jokingly complains about the decline of spelling, and that he "can't swallow the 'wel-dun donut' nor the ever so 'gud bred'."
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"Peanuts" had its origin in "Li'l Folks", a weekly panel comic that appeared in Schulz's hometown paper, the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", from 1947 to 1950. He first used the name "Charlie Brown" for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like the early 1950s version of Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to "The Saturday Evening Post," which published 17 of his single-panel cartoons. The first of these was of a boy sitting with his feet on an ottoman.
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In the 1980s and the 1990s, the strip remained the most popular comic in history, even though other comics, such as "Garfield" and "Calvin and Hobbes", rivaled "Peanuts" in popularity. Schulz continued to write the strip until announcing his retirement on December 14, 1999, due to his failing health.
Foam peanut
Polystyrene-based packing peanuts were developed and patented by Tektronix Inc. They were made commercially available circa 1965 by Dow Chemical. Originally made from 100% virgin polystyrene resin, peanuts made from 100% recycled polystyrene have been commercially available since the mid-90s. The color and shape sometimes indicate what it is made of and who made it. Often green is 70% or possibly more recycled polystyrene, white is 70% or more virgin resin and pink means an antistatic agent has been applied; although there are some variations. The most common shapes are similar to a "S", "figure 8" or "W". Foam peanuts are very light (usually around 3 grams per litre/0.17 to 0.2 lb per cu ft) and easy to use.
Peanut butter cookie
Early peanut butter cookies were either rolled thin and cut into shapes, or else they were dropped and made into balls; they did not have fork marks. The first reference to the famous criss-cross marks created with fork tines was published in the "Schenectady Gazette" on July 1, 1932. The "Peanut Butter Cookies" recipe said: "[s]hape into balls and after placing them on the cookie sheet, press each one down with a fork, first one way and then the other, so they look like squares on waffles."
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In 1983, Knott's Berry Farm, in Southern California, was the first theme park to license the "Peanuts" characters, creating the first Camp Snoopy area and making Snoopy the park's mascot. Knott's expanded its operation in 1992 by building an indoor amusement park in the Mall of America, called "Knott's Camp Snoopy". The Knott's theme parks were acquired by the national amusement park chain Cedar Fair Entertainment Company in 1997, which continued to operate "Knott's Camp Snoopy" park until the mall took over its operation in March 2005. Cedar Fair had already licensed the "Peanuts" characters for use in 1992 as atmosphere, so its acquisition of Knott's Berry Farm did not alter the use of those characters.
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The 1960s is known as the "golden age" for "Peanuts". During this period some of the best-known themes and characters appeared, including Peppermint Patty, Snoopy as the "World War One Flying Ace", Frieda and her "naturally curly hair", and Franklin. "Peanuts" is remarkable for its deft social commentary, especially compared with other strips appearing in the 1950s and early 1960s. Schulz did not explicitly address racial and gender equality issues so much as assume them to be self-evident. Peppermint Patty's athletic skill and self-confidence is simply taken for granted, for example, as is Franklin's presence in a racially integrated school and neighborhood. (Franklin came about at least in part as a result of Schulz's correspondence in 1968 with a socially progressive fan.) The fact that Charlie Brown's baseball team had three girls was also at least ten years ahead of its time (and in fact, the 1966 TV special "Charlie Brown's All-Stars" dealt with Charlie Brown refusing sponsorship of the team because the sponsor said the league does not allow girls or dogs to play).
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The initial cast of "Peanuts" was small, featuring only Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty (not to be confused with Peppermint Patty) and (two days after the release of the first strip) a beagle, Snoopy. The first addition, Violet, was made on February 7, 1951. Other character introductions that soon followed were Schroeder, on May 30, 1951, as a baby; Lucy, on March 3, 1952; Lucy's baby brother Linus, on September 19, 1952 (after his existence was first mentioned on July 14); and Pig-Pen, on July 13, 1954.
Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales
Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales is one of many prime-time animated TV specials based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip "Peanuts". It originally aired on ABC December 8, 2002. It has since been broadcast each Christmas season after that as a companion segment in an hour-long slot featuring an unedited version of "A Charlie Brown Christmas". It is the only TV special to credit Charles M. Schulz posthumously for writing. Other TV credits do not credit Schulz writing it.
Mickey Mouse
Mickey first appeared in comics after he had appeared in 15 commercially successful animated shorts and was easily recognized by the public. Walt Disney was approached by King Features Syndicate with the offer to license Mickey and his supporting characters for use in a comic strip. Disney accepted and Mickey made his first comic strip appearance on January 13, 1930. The comical plot was credited to Disney himself, art to Ub Iwerks and inking to Win Smith. The first week or so of the strip featured a loose adaptation of ""Plane Crazy"". Minnie soon became the first addition to the cast. The strips first released between January 13, 1930, and March 31, 1930, has been occasionally reprinted in comic book form under the collective title ""Lost on a Desert Island"". Animation historian Jim Korkis notes "After the eighteenth strip, Iwerks left and his inker, Win Smith, continued drawing the gag-a-day format..."
Mario Peruzzi
The merchandising of peanuts became successful and by 1911 they entered the confectionery business. The firm became Planters Nut and Chocolate Company. In 1913 a new plant was built in Suffolk, Virginia where peanuts were grown. Obici and his wife eventually moved there permanently in 1924. Peruzzi remained in Wilkes-Barre as the general manager and secretary-treasurer of the firm. In time he became vice-president of the firm and later its president. The firm took on the name Planters Peanuts, appropriating the idea from the Virginia peanut planters.
The Mr. Peanut mascot developed from a promotional contest launched by the firm in 1916 to come up with a trademark. A 14-year-old boy won the contest with his sketch of a peanut with a smiling visage. The grade-school student labeled his sketch, "Mr. P. Nut Planter From Virginia." The sketch of smiling Mr. Peanut was an in-shell peanut that had arms and legs and carried a cane.
Famous Funnies
That same year, Eastern Color salesperson Maxwell Gaines and sales manager Harry I. Wildenberg collaborated with Dell Publishing to publish the 36-page one-shot "Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics", considered by historians the first true American comic book; Goulart, for example, calls it "the cornerstone for one of the most lucrative branches of magazine publishing". It was distributed through the Woolworth's department store chain, though it is unclear whether it was sold or given away; the cover displays no price, but Goulart refers, either metaphorically or literally, to Gaines "sticking a ten-cent pricetag [sic] on the comic books".
Peppermint Patty
Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt is a fictional character featured in Charles M. Schulz' comic strip "Peanuts". She is one of a small group in the strip who lives across town from Charlie Brown and his school friends (although in "The Peanuts Movie" she, along with Marcie and Franklin, lives in the same neighborhood and attends the same school). She has freckles and auburn/brunette hair and generally displays the characteristics of a tomboy. She made her first appearance on August 22, 1966. The following year, she made her animated debut in the TV special "You're in Love, Charlie Brown" and began (in the comics) coaching a baseball team that played against Charlie Brown and since has had other adventures with him. Uniquely, she refers to Charlie Brown and Lucy as "Chuck" and "Lucille", respectively. In most of her appearances, she has a crush on Charlie Brown, based on her reactions.
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"Peanuts" is one of the literate strips with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones that flourished in the 1950s. The strip's humor (at least during its '60s peak) is psychologically complex, and the characters' interactions formed a tangle of relationships that drove the strip.
Charles M. Schulz
The first collection of "Peanuts" strips was published in July 1952 by Rinehart & Company. Many more books followed, greatly contributing to the strip's increasing popularity. In 2004, Fantagraphics began their "Complete Peanuts" series. "Peanuts" also proved popular in other media; the first animated TV special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas", aired in December 1965 and won an Emmy award. Numerous TV specials followed, the latest being "Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown" in 2011. Until his death, Schulz wrote or co-wrote the TV specials and carefully oversaw their production.
Charlie Brown, the principal character of "Peanuts", was named after a co-worker at Art Instruction Inc. Schulz drew much from his own life, some examples being:
IBM PCjr
By September 1983, books and magazine articles on Peanut were ready for publishing, with only a few changes needed once the still officially nonexistent computer appeared. Software companies prepared to market products as "Peanut compatible" with the computer that, rumors said, IBM would produce 500,000 units of in the first year. "Adweek" estimated that IBM would spend $75 million on marketing, including an alleged license of Charles Schulz's Peanuts characters. "Smalltalk" magazine in August published a detailed article on the computer, stating that it would cost $600 plus $400 for a disk drive, use a color TV as a display, and have a standard typewriter keyboard.
Comic Cuts
Comic Cuts was a British comic book magazine. It was created by the reporter Alfred Harmsworth through his company Amalgamated Press (AP). It was published from 1890 to 1953, lasting 3006 issues, and in its early days inspired other publishers to produce rival comics. Its first issue was an assortment of reprints from American publications. During its lifetime, the comic merged with many others including "Golden Penny" (1928), "Jolly Comic" (1939) and "Larks" (1940). Comic Cuts finally disappeared in September 1953 when it was merged with "Knockout". "Comic Cuts" held the record for the most issues of a British weekly comic for 46 years, until "The Dandy" overtook it in 1999.
Republican-American
In 1924, the "Republican" and "American" began printing their Sunday comic pages in color and started selling their color printing services to other newspapers. A few years later, Pape founded a separate company, Eastern Color Printing Company, to oversee the color printing end of the business. In 1934, it produced what is considered the first modern comic book, named Famous Funnies. It featured the adventures of Mutt and Jeff, Donald Dare the Demon Reporter, Buck Rogers and other comic characters.
Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz
Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz is a documentary about the creator of the "Peanuts" series, Charles Schulz. The special first aired on the CBS television network on May 22, 1969. It features many different segments, including footage from the first Peanuts feature-length film, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown."
Peanuts Motion Comics
Peanuts Motion Comics is a series of animated cartoon shorts based on 1964 strips of Charles Schulz' comic strip, "Peanuts". The series premiered on iTunes in 2008 with the support of the Schulz estate. The first season consists of 20 cartoon shorts, paired into 10 episodes. The episodes employ signature themes and plotlines from the classic strips. The first season was released to DVD on March 9, 2010. Animation production was done by Studio B Productions.
The Gremlins
The story of gremlins appeared in Issues #33-#41 of "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" published by Walt Disney Productions between June 1943 and February 1944; it contained a nine-episode series of short, silent stories featuring a Gremlin Gus as their star. The first was drawn by Vivie Risto and the rest of them by Walt Kelly. This served as their introduction to the comic book audience. These comics were subsequently reprinted in 1987 by Gladstone Publishing Ltd.
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Schulz decided to produce all aspects of the strip himself from the script to the finished art and lettering. Schulz did, however, hire help to produce the comic book adaptations of "Peanuts". Thus, the strip was able to be presented with a unified tone, and Schulz was able to employ a minimalistic style. Backgrounds were generally not used, and when they were, Schulz's frazzled lines imbued them with a fraught, psychological appearance. This style has been described by art critic John Carlin as forcing "its readers to focus on subtle nuances rather than broad actions or sharp transitions." Schulz held this belief all his life, reaffirming in 1994 the importance of crafting the strip himself: "This is not a crazy business about slinging ink. This is a deadly serious business."
The Complete Peanuts
Volume 25, covering the years 1999 and 2000, also includes the complete run of Schulz's 1947–50 strip "Li'l Folks". This precursor includes early versions of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. A 26th and final volume was announced in 2016 which includes hundreds of miscellaneous sketches, designs, short stories, and covers drawn by Schulz.
Plunk
Plunk was first created in the late 1980s for the Belgian Centre for Comic Strip Art as a fictional example of the merchandising that can be produced with successful comic figures like "The Smurfs" or "Peanuts". In 1990, he became a character in "Taco Zip", the comic strip by Cromheecke which appeared at the time in the Dutch newspaper "De Volkskrant". These comic strips were later reprinted in four albums and twenty years later in one collection.
CBS
CBS was the original broadcast network home of the animated primetime holiday specials based on the "Peanuts" comic strip, beginning with "A Charlie Brown Christmas" in 1965. Over 30 holiday Peanuts specials (each for a specific holiday such as Halloween) were broadcast on CBS from that time until 2000, when the broadcast rights were acquired by ABC. CBS also aired several primetime animated specials based on the works of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel), beginning with "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" in 1966, as well as several specials based on the "Garfield" comic strip during the 1980s (which led to Garfield getting his own Saturday morning cartoon on the network, "Garfield and Friends", which ran from 1988 to 1995). "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer", produced in stop motion by the Rankin/Bass studio, has been another annual holiday staple of CBS since 1972; however, that special originated on NBC in 1964. , "Rudolph" and "Frosty the Snowman" are the only two pre-1990 animated specials remaining on CBS; the broadcast rights to the "Charlie Brown" specials are now held by ABC, "The Grinch" rights are now held by NBC and the rights to the "Garfield" specials are now held by Boomerang.
Snoopy
Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. He can also be found in all of the "Peanuts" movies and television specials, like "The Peanuts Movie". Since his debut on October 4, 1950, Snoopy has become one of the most recognizable and iconic characters in the comic strip, and is considered more famous than Charlie Brown in other countries. The original drawings of Snoopy were inspired by Spike, one of Schulz's childhood dogs.
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In 1933, salesperson Maxwell Gaines, sales manager Harry I. Wildenberg, and owner George Janosik of the Waterbury, Connecticut company Eastern Color Printing – which printed, among other things, Sunday-paper comic-strip sections – produced "Funnies on Parade" as a way to keep their presses running. Like "The Funnies", but only eight pages, this appeared as a newsprint magazine. Rather than using original material, however, it reprinted in color several comic strips licensed from the McNaught Syndicate, the Ledger Syndicate, and the Bell-McClure Syndicate. These included such popular strips as cartoonist Al Smith's "Mutt and Jeff", Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka", and Percy Crosby's "Skippy". Eastern Color neither sold this periodical nor made it available on newsstands, but rather sent it out free as a promotional item to consumers who mailed in coupons clipped from Procter & Gamble soap and toiletries products. The company printed 10,000 copies. The promotion proved a success, and Eastern Color that year produced similar periodicals for Canada Dry soft drinks, Kinney Shoes, Wheatena cereal and others, with print runs of from 100,000 to 250,000.
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Many other cartoonists paid tribute to "Peanuts" and Schulz by homages in their own strips, appearing on February 13, 2000, or in the week beforehand. The comic was reprinted the day after that, but only had the farewell letter. After "Peanuts" ended, United Feature Syndicate began offering the newspapers that ran it a package of reprinted strips under the title "Classic Peanuts". The syndicate limited the choices to either strips from the 1960s or from the 1990s, although a newspaper was also given the option to carry both reprint packages if it desired. All Sunday strips in the package, however, come from the 1960s.
The Peanuts Movie
"The Peanuts Movie" was released on November 6, 2015, commemorating the 65th anniversary of the original comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas". It grossed $246 million worldwide against a $99 million budget. The critical consensus on Rotten Tomatoes calls it "sweetly nostalgic" though unambitious. It received nominations for the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature, and was the first Blue Sky Studios film to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film.
You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown
You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown, the first "Peanuts" TV special of the 1990s, is one of many prime-time animated TV specials, based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip "Peanuts". It originally aired on the CBS network on February 2, 1990. Hosted by "Knots Landing" star Michele Lee, this special includes a reunion of actors and actresses who voiced "Peanuts" characters from 1963 to 1989. Also included are a B.B. King performance of "Joe Cool" and clips from the seldom-seen 1973 "Hallmark Hall of Fame" live-action production of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". Unlike the other "Peanuts" anniversary specials before and after, this was the only one that was released to home video by Paramount Home Video.
Bernard Gruver
Bernard Gruver (Born: June 25, 1923 - Died: June 14, 1985) was best known as one of the original animators of the Peanuts cartoon series. He also was an animation professor at the University of Southern California School of Cinema. He died of pneumonia following treatment for leukemia in 1985. "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" was dedicated to him.
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Universal Uclick's website, GoComics.com, announced on January 5, 2015, that they would be launching "Peanuts Begins", a feature rerunning the entire history of the strip from the beginning in colorized form. This was done to honor the 65th anniversary of the strip's debut.
Skippy (comic strip)
Skippy was an American comic strip written and drawn by Percy Crosby that was published from 1923 to 1945. A highly popular, acclaimed and influential feature about rambunctious fifth-grader Skippy Skinner, his friends and his enemies, it was adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show. It was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp and was the basis for a wide range of merchandising that includes Skippy peanut butter.
The Muppets
Since the late 1970s, numerous Muppet-related comic books have been released over the years. The first comic strips based on the Muppets appeared on September 21, 1981, in over 500 daily newspapers, just months after "The Muppet Show" ended its five-year run. "The Muppets Comic Strip" was printed daily from 1981 to 1986. By the end of its initial run, the comic strip was seen in over 660 newspapers worldwide. Special strips were also created in color, exclusively for issues of "Muppet Magazine".
Peanuts
"Peanuts" achieved considerable success with its television specials, several of which, including "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", won or were nominated for Emmy Awards. The "Peanuts" holiday specials remain popular and are broadcast on ABC in the U.S. during the appropriate seasons, since 2001. The Peanuts franchise also had success in theatre, with the stage musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" an oft-performed production. In 2013, "TV Guide" ranked the "Peanuts" television specials the fourth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. A computer-animated feature film based on the strip, "The Peanuts Movie", was released in 2015.
Sunday comics
Early Sunday strips filled an entire newspaper page. Later strips, such as "The Phantom" and "Terry and the Pirates", were usually only half that size, with two strips to a page in full-size newspapers, such as the "New Orleans Times Picayune", or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the "Chicago Sun-Times". When Sunday strips began to appear in more than one format, it became necessary for the cartoonist to follow a standardized strip layout, which provides newspapers with the greatest flexibility in determining how to print a strip.
One notable distinction among Sunday comics supplements was the supplement produced in a comic book-like format, featuring the character The Spirit. These sixteen-page (later eight-page) standalone Sunday supplements of Will Eisner's character (distributed by the 
Register and Tribune Syndicate) were included with newspapers from 1940 through 1952.
During World War II, because of paper shortages, the size of Sunday strips began to shrink. After the war, strips continued to get smaller and smaller, to save the expense of printing so many color pages. The last full-page comic strip was the "Prince Valiant" strip for 11 April 1971. The dimensions of the Sunday comics continued to decrease in recent years, as did the number of pages. Sunday comics sections that were 10 or 12 pages in 1950 dropped to six or four pages by 2005. One of the last large-size Sunday comics in the United States is in the "Reading Eagle", which has eight Berliner-size pages and carries 36 comics. Its banner headline is "Biggest Comics Section in the Land". Another big-size comic section is that of "The Washington Post" which carries 41 strips in eight broadsheet pages although it also contains a sudoku and a Jumble puzzle. Canadian newspaper comic sections are unique not only because of being printed on Saturdays, but these usually are also part of the entertainment or lifestyle section. A notable exception is that of the "Winnipeg Free Press" which publishes an eight-page comic-only tabloid section.
Li'l Folks
Li'l Folks, the first comic strip by "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz, was a weekly panel that appeared mainly in Schulz's hometown paper, the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", from June 22, 1947, to January 22, 1950. Schulz's first regular cartoon, "Li'l Folks" can be regarded as an embryonic version of "Peanuts", containing characters and themes which were to reappear in the later strip: a well-dressed young boy with a fondness for Beethoven, à la Schroeder; a dog with a resemblance to Snoopy; and a boy named Charlie Brown.
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Full-page strips were eventually replaced by strips half that size. Strips such as "The Phantom" and "Terry and the Pirates" began appearing in a format of two strips to a page in full-size newspapers, such as the "New Orleans Times Picayune", or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the "Chicago Sun-Times". When Sunday strips began to appear in more than one format, it became necessary for the cartoonist to allow for rearranged, cropped or dropped panels. During World War II, because of paper shortages, the size of Sunday strips began to shrink. After the war, strips continued to get smaller and smaller because of increased paper and printing costs. The last full-page comic strip was the "Prince Valiant" strip for 11 April 1971.
Sunday comics
Currently, the largest and most complete format for most Sunday strips, such as "Peanuts", is the half page. A few strips have been popular enough for the artist to insist on the Sunday strip being run in a half-page format, though not necessarily in a half-page size. "Calvin and Hobbes" was the first strip to do this, followed by "Outland" and later "Opus". "The Reading Eagle" is one of the few newspapers that still run half-page Sunday strips.
Moomins
The Moomins also appeared in the form of comic strips. Their first appearance was in 1947 in the children's section of the "Ny Tid" newspaper, and they were introduced internationally to English readers in 1954 in the popular London newspaper "The Evening News". Tove Jansson drew and wrote all the strips until 1959. She shared the work load with her brother Lars Jansson until 1961; after that he took over the job until 1975 when the last strip was released.
Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000), was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip "Peanuts" (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others). He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, cited by cartoonists including Jim Davis, Bill Watterson, and Matt Groening.
Beer Nuts
The company began in 1937 when Edward Shirk and his son Arlo took over the Caramel Crisp confectionery store in Bloomington, Illinois, which sold a product called "Redskins," glazed peanuts with their red skins intact. Beginning in 1950, this product was sold packaged as "Shirk's Glazed Peanuts" in local liquor stores.
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A Peanuts World War I Flying Ace U.S. commemorative postage stamp was released on May 17, 2001. The value was 34 cents, First Class.
The Peanuts Movie (soundtrack)
The Peanuts Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album by various artists for "The Peanuts Movie", a 2015 3D computer-animated comedy film based on the 1950s comic strip "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz. It was released on October 23, 2015 through Epic Records. Following the announcement that Christophe Beck would score the film, it was revealed that Meghan Trainor would write an original song for the soundtrack. The song, titled "Better When I'm Dancin'", was released as a promotional single from the soundtrack on October 13, 2015. Along with Beck and Trainor, the soundtrack features songs by Vince Guaraldi Trio and Flo Rida.
George Washington Carver
His most popular bulletin, "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it for Human Consumption," was first published in 1916 and was reprinted many times. It gave a short overview of peanut crop production and contained a list of recipes from other agricultural bulletins, cookbooks, magazines, and newspapers, such as the "Peerless Cookbook", "Good Housekeeping", and "Berry's Fruit Recipes". Carver's was far from the first American agricultural bulletin devoted to peanuts, but his bulletins did seem to be more popular and widespread than previous ones.
The Morning Call
"The Morning Call" is one of the 9 newspapers that ran the first Peanuts comic strip.
History of American comics
The period of the late nineteenth century (the so-called "Platinum Age") was characterized by a gradual introduction of the key elements of the American mass comics. Then, the funnies were found in the humor pages of newspapers: they were published in the Sunday edition to retain readership. Indeed, it was not the information given that distinguished the newspapers but the editorials and the pages which were not informative, whose illustrations were an important component. These pages were then called comic supplement. In 1892, William Randolph Hearst published cartoons in his first newspaper, "The San Francisco Examiner". James Swinnerton created on this occasion the first drawings of humanized animals in the series "Little Bears and Tykes". Nevertheless, drawings published in the press were rather a series of humorous independent cartoons occupying a full page. The purpose of the cartoon itself, as expressed through narrative sequence expressed through images which follow one another, was only imposed slowly.
Mickey Finn (comic strip)
Additionally, an adaptation of the comic strip was published as a Little Big Book, "Mickey Finn" (1940). Unrelated to Western Publishing's Big Little Books, this was one of a series by the Saalfield Publishing Company of Akron, Ohio. Golden Years Publications reprinted the "Mickey Finn" strips from "Big Shot" #82 (Oct. 1947) in "All-Amazing Comics" #16 (Dec. 2001).
Referring to "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz, Morris Weiss said in 2006, "'Sparky' Schulz once told me that "Mickey Finn" was his dad's favorite comic strip. Compliments like that you don't hear every day."
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Though the strip did not have a lead character at first, it soon began to focus on Charlie Brown, a character developed from some of the painful experiences of Schulz's formative years. In early strips, Charlie Brown was depicted as distinctly younger than his cohorts Patty and Shermy. His main characteristic is either self-defeating stubbornness or admirably determined persistence to try his best against all odds: he can never win a ballgame but continues playing baseball; he can never fly a kite successfully but continues to try. Though his inferiority complex was evident from the start, in the earlier strips he also got in his own jabs when verbally sparring with Patty and Shermy. Some early strips also involved romantic attractions between Charlie Brown and Patty or Violet. On September 1, 1958, Charlie Brown's father was formally revealed to be a barber (after earlier hints). In 1960, Hallmark Cards introduced the now popular line of Charlie Brown greeting cards. Charlie Brown and Snoopy reached new heights on May 18, 1969, as they became the names of the command module and lunar module, respectively, for Apollo 10.
She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown
She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown is the 19th prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on February 25, 1980, making it the first "Peanuts" special of the 1980s. It is also one of the few Peanuts animated specials to feature clear and intelligible adult voices. Since 2010, ABC has had the rights to the air the special, which it pairs with "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!".
Willie Mays
Mays was mentioned numerous times in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts". One of the most famous of these strips was originally published on February 9, 1966. In it, Charlie Brown is competing in a class spelling bee and he is asked to spell the word, "Maze". He erroneously spells it M-A-Y-S and screams out his dismay when he is eliminated. When Charlie Brown is later sent to the principal's office for raising his voice at the teacher regarding the incident, he wonders if one day he will meet Willie Mays and will have a good laugh together about the incident.
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The characters have been featured on Hallmark Cards since 1960, and can be found adorning clothing, figurines, plush dolls, flags, balloons, posters, Christmas ornaments, and countless other bits of licensed merchandise.
Circus peanut
The first circus peanuts are long rumored to have originated in Omaha, Nebraska as the brainchild of chemical engineer Richard Dye. After fashioning a foam, peanut-shaped insulation for use in preventing drafts in his livestock barn, Knapp was said to have been so pleased with the texture and shape of the insulation that he was inspired to recreate it as a confection in his kitchen using edible ingredients. The treat delighted his family and friends, and he was encouraged to distribute small bags of the candy “peanuts” each year when the circus passed through town.
History of animation in India
"The Pea Brothers", directed by Gunamoy Banerjee and produced by New Theatres Limited was released in Calcutta on 23 June 1934 , making it the first Indian animated work to be released in theatres. The film was between 3 to 4 minutes long and used drawn black and white images. The plot consists of a pea-pod which opens up to release 5 peas, and from these peas emerge five small toy-like figures that play with one another. The film was basically an experimental attempt and hence lacked a proper storyline. It resembled the tradition of Disney and other foreign animators, whose films were released quite often in Calcutta.
It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown
It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown is the 35th prime-time animated TV special based upon the comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schulz. It was produced in 1992 but unlike previous specials it was not shown on CBS, and remained unseen until Paramount released it on video in 1996 alongside 1966's "Charlie Brown's All-Stars". The special was released by Warner Home Video on October 9, 2012, on the DVD "Happiness is ... Peanuts: Go Snoopy Go!"
It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown
It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown is the 16th prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired 8:00 PM, Monday, October 24, 1977 on the CBS-TV network.
Moomin comic strips
The comic strip was born, when Charles Sutton, the leader of the Associated Newspapers syndicate contacted Tove Jansson. Jannson's first Moomin books "Comet in Moominland" (1946) and "Finn Family Moomintroll" (1948) had already been translated to English and had been successful in the United Kingdom. In a letter to Jansson in January 1952, Sutton asked if she was willing to transfer the Moomins to comic strip format:
At the time, Tove Jansson had already had experience in drawing Moomin comic strips. She had already published a long comic strip story "Mumintrollet och jordens undergång" in the Finland-Swedish "Ny Tid" newspaper in 1947, which was loosely based on her book "Comet in Moominland". The comic strip attracted strong criticism from the left-wing readers of the newspaper, who thought the Moomins were too bourgeois, and the newspaper did not order any more comic strips from Jansson. After Sutton's offer, Jansson made a seven-year contract to draw Moomin comic strips in June 1952. Before the comic was published, Jansson developed the strip together with the comic press of Associated Newspapers, and particularly Charles Sutton guided the artist in great detail. For a time, the syndicate sought a separate writer for the strip, but in the end, the decision was that Jansson would both write and draw the strip herself.
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Schulz drew the strip for nearly 50 years, with no assistants, even in the lettering and coloring process.
Working for Peanuts
Working for Peanuts is a 1953 animated short produced by Walt Disney. It is notable for being one of their first shorts filmed in 3D (the first being "Adventures in Music: Melody", which was released several months before). The tagline of the film is "Walt Disney's Donald Duck & Chip 'N Dale in their first laugh riot in 3-Dimension."
Funnies on Parade
Later in 1933, Gaines collaborated with Dell Publishing once again to publish the 36-page one-shot "Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics", followed in 1934 by "Famous Funnies", which ran for 218 issues and is considered the first true American comic book.
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"Peanuts" premiered on October 2, 1950, in nine newspapers: "The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune", "The Allentown Morning Call", "The Bethlehem Globe-Times", "The Denver Post", "The Seattle Times", "The New York World-Telegram & Sun", and "The Boston Globe". It began as a daily strip. The first strip was four panels long and showed Charlie Brown walking by two other young children, Shermy and Patty. Shermy lauds Charlie Brown as he walks by, but then tells Patty how he hates him in the final panel. Snoopy was also an early character in the strip, first appearing in the third strip, which ran on October 4. Its first Sunday strip appeared January 6, 1952, in the half-page format, which was the only complete format for the entire life of the Sunday strip. Most of the other characters that eventually became the main characters of Peanuts did not appear until later: Violet (February 1951), Schroeder (May 1951), Lucy (March 1952), Linus (September 1952), Pig-Pen (July 1954), Sally (August 1959), Frieda (March 1961), "Peppermint" Patty (August 1966), Woodstock (introduced April 1967; given a name in June 1970), Franklin (July 1968), Marcie (July 1971), and Rerun (March 1973).
Dave Sim
Inspired by Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" and "Outhouses of the North", a small book of cartoons published by the Highway Bookshop in northern Ontario, Sim spent 1975 and 1976 developing a comic strip called "The Beavers". Highway Bookshop published the strip as a book in 1976. A second book failed to materialize when the publisher shut down. Sim then pursued syndication, pitching "The Beavers" to the "Kitchener-Waterloo Record". With Day inking the strips, a year's worth was produced in three days. Sim also wrote or drew stories published in anthologies such as "Phantacea" and "Star*Reach". "The Beavers" also saw print in "Star*Reach's" sister funny animals comic "Quack!".
History of comics
In 1843, Töpffer formalised his thoughts on the "picture story" in his "Essay on Physiognomics": "To construct a picture-story does not mean you must set yourself up as a master craftsman, to draw out every potential from your material—often down to the dregs! It does not mean you just devise caricatures with a pencil naturally frivolous. Nor is it simply to dramatize a proverb or illustrate a pun. You must actually invent some kind of play, where the parts are arranged by plan and form a satisfactory whole. You do not merely pen a joke or put a refrain in couplets. You make a book: good or bad, sober or silly, crazy or sound in sense."
In 1845, the satirical drawings, which regularly appeared in newspapers and magazines, gained a name: cartoons. (In art, a cartoon is a pencil or charcoal sketch to be overpainted.) The British magazine "Punch", launched in 1841, referred to its 'humorous pencilings' as cartoons in a satirical reference to the Parliament of the day, who were themselves organising an exhibition of cartoons, or preparatory drawings, at the time. This usage became common parlance, lasting to the present day. Similar magazines containing cartoons in continental Europe included "Fliegende Blätter" and "Le Charivari", while in the U.S. "Judge" and "Puck" were popular.
Franklin (Peanuts)
Franklin Armstrong is a character in the long-running comic strip "Peanuts", created by Charles M. Schulz. Introduced on July 31, 1968, Franklin was the first African American character in the strip. He goes to school with Peppermint Patty and Marcie. In his first story arc, he met Charlie Brown when they were both at the beach. Franklin's father was a soldier fighting in Vietnam, to which Charlie Brown replied "My dad's a barber...he was in a war too, but I don't know which one." Franklin later paid Charlie Brown a visit and found some of Charlie Brown's other friends to be quite odd. His last appearance was in 1999, the year before Schulz's death.
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In addition, almost all "Peanuts" strips are now also legally available online at GoComics.com (there are some strips missing from the digital archive). "Peanuts" strips were previously featured on Comics.com.
The Peanuts Movie
In 2006, six years after the release of the last original "Peanuts" strip, as well as the death of creator Charles M. Schulz, his son Craig Schulz came up with an idea for a new "Peanuts" film, which he showed to his screenwriter son Bryan Schulz. "I was happy to show my son," Craig said. "He showed me how to make it bigger—how to blow it up more—and he helped me put in structure." When presenting their film to studios, Craig stipulated that the film remain under Schulz control, saying, "We need[ed] to have absolute quality control and keep it under Dad's legacy... You can't bring people in from the outside and expect them to understand "Peanuts"." On October 9, 2012, it was announced that 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios were developing a 3D computer-animated feature film based on the strip, with Steve Martino directing from the screenplay by Craig Schulz, Bryan Schulz, and Cornelius Uliano. Craig, Bryan, and Uliano also produced. Craig, stating there is no one "more protective of the comic strip than myself," chose Martino as director because he showed faithfulness to literature in his adaptation of Dr. Seuss' "Horton Hears a Who!".
The Teenie Weenies
The strip was inspired by Palmer Cox's "The Brownies" and was done in the form of text with a single large picture. Unlike the "Brownies" where the text was written in verse, Donahey wrote in prose. 
The "Teenie Weenies" first appeared in black and white in the women's section of the "Chicago Tribune" on June 14, 1914. This first story was of the Top Hat house burning down. The comic strip ran as a one panel story with a picture until 1923. It then moved to the comics page as a strip cartoon. Color versions soon appeared in the magazine section of the newspaper printed in rotogravure.
Canadian comics
Palmer Cox, a Canadian expatriate in the United States, at this time created "The Brownies", a popular, widely merchandised phenomenon whose first book collection sold over a million copies. Cox began a "Brownies" comic strip in 1898 that was one of the earliest English-language strips, and had begun to use speech balloons by the time it ended in 1907.
Zombie strip
The practice of continuing a zombie comic strip is commonly criticized by cartoonists, particularly younger ones in the new generation, including Bill Watterson and Stephan Pastis. Pastis addressed the issue in his strip, "Pearls Before Swine", in 2005. Mark Tatulli also commented on zombie strips in his strip "Liō" in 2010. and in 2013. After an incident in which United Feature Syndicate secretly retained the services of superhero comic artist Al Plastino to continue the comic strip "Peanuts" in case of an interruption, Charles Schulz, author and creator of "Peanuts", requested that his strip (which, in contrast to most comic strips today, he drew completely on his own with no assistants of any kind) not be continued by another cartoonist after his death; Schulz's family (as well as Universal Uclick, which currently holds the strip's publication rights) has honored his wishes. Since Schulz's death in 2000, "Peanuts" has continued in reruns under the title "Classic Peanuts".
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During the week of July 29, 1968, Schulz debuted the African-American character Franklin to the strip, at the urging of white Los Angeles schoolteacher Harriet Glickman. Though Schulz feared that adding a black character would be seen as patronizing to the African-American community, Glickman convinced him that the addition of black characters could help normalize the idea of friendships between children of different ethnicities. Franklin appeared in a trio of strips set at a beach, in which he first gets Charlie Brown's beach ball from the water and subsequently helps him build a sand castle, during which he mentions that his father is in Vietnam. He never occupies the same panel, however, with Sally.
History of comics
The first weekly comic to feature a regular character was "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday", which debuted in the British humour magazine "Judy" in 1867 and was created by C. H. Ross and illustrated by his French wife Emilie de Tessier. In 1884 the then highly popular character was spun off into his own comic, "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday" published by Dalziel Brothers, eight pages long and printed in black and white at tabloid size. The magazine was extremely popular with the working class and may have had a circulation as high as 350,000. In 1890, two more comic magazines debuted to the British public, "Comic Cuts" and "Illustrated Chips", establishing the tradition of the British comic as an anthology periodical containing comic strips.
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While the strip in its early years resembles its later form, there are significant differences. The art was cleaner, sleeker, and simpler, with thicker lines and short, squat characters. For example, in these early strips, Charlie Brown's famous round head is closer to the shape of an American football or rugby football. Most of the kids were initially fairly round-headed. As another example, all the characters (except Charlie Brown) had their mouths longer and had smaller eyes when they looked sideways.
Striker (comic)
Striker was created during 1985 by Pete Nash, who had just become a design sub-editor on The Sun newspaper, where he was exposed and took inspiration from the original artwork of strips like George and Lynne and Axa. As a result, he decided to create a newspaper cartoon strip and explored a number of ideas, before deciding on a football theme, as the only other strip was Roy of the Rovers, which he personally believed had become "tired and dated". Nash subsequently drew the first ten panels and despite the amateurish, overdrawn and messy look to them, he showed the strips to The Sun's managing editor at the time Kelvin MacKenzie. Kelvin subsequently asked Pete to show the strip to his deputy and managing editor, before the first newspaper strip was published on November 11, 1985. Over the next few years, the strip was published, in a pencil, brush and ink format in A3, before it was reduced in size by photocopier to the size it would appear in the paper. During August 1990, Striker started to be coloured in with Pantone markers, after being reduced to publication size. During 1994, as Striker approached its tenth year, Nash felt that the newspaper strip needed a "major update" with fresh faces and new characters. As a result, Nick left Thamesford FC and joined Warbury Warriors as their "Player-Manager" during July 1994, with the challenge of taking them from the conference to the Premiership in successive seasons.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a 1965 animated television special based on the comic strip "Peanuts", by Charles M. Schulz. Produced by Lee Mendelson and directed by Bill Melendez, the program made its debut on CBS on December 9, 1965. In the special, lead character Charlie Brown finds himself depressed despite the onset of the cheerful holiday season. Lucy suggests he direct a neighborhood Christmas play, but his best efforts are ignored and mocked by his peers. After Linus tells Charlie Brown about the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown cheers up, and the Peanuts gang unites to celebrate the Christmas season.
History of American comics
In 1894, Joseph Pulitzer published in the "New York World" the first color strip, designed by Walt McDougall, showing that the technique already enabled this kind of publications. Authors began to create recurring characters. Thus, in 1894 and still in the "New York World", Richard F. Outcault presented "Hogan's Alley", created shortly before in the magazine "Truth Magazine". In this series of full-page large drawings teeming with humorous details, he staged street urchins, one of whom was wearing a blue nightgown (which turned yellow in 1895). Soon, the little character became the darling of readers who called him "Yellow Kid". On October 25, 1896, the "Yellow Kid" pronounced his first words in a speech balloon (they were previously written on his shirt). Outcault had already used this method but this date is often considered as the birth of comics in the United States.
Robert L. Short
In 1965, Short published his first book, "The Gospel According to Peanuts", which used examples from the popular comic strip "Peanuts" to explain points of Christian theology. It was an immediate success, and was the best-selling non-fiction book in the U.S. for the year. As of 2012 it had sold over 10 million copies in the U.S. The book followed his article, "The Penultimate Peanuts", published in "Motive Magazine" in October 1963.
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The final daily original "Peanuts" comic strip was published on Monday, January 3, 2000. The strip contained a note to the readers of the strip from Schulz and a drawing of Snoopy, with his trusty typewriter, sitting atop his doghouse deep in thought. Beginning the next day, a rerun package premiered in papers that had elected to pick it up (see below). Although Schulz did not draw any daily strips that ran past January 3, he had drawn five Sunday strips that had yet to run. The first of these appeared six days after the last daily, on January 9.
He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown
He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown is the fifth prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on February 14, 1968. This was also the last "Peanuts" special featuring the majority of the original voice cast from the first "Peanuts" special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas".
Comic strip syndication
Comic strip syndication services began operating in the opening years of the 20th century. The first syndicate to distribute comic strips was the McClure Newspaper Syndicate (founded in 1884), which began syndicating comic strips circa 1901. (McClure's more notable strips included "Billy Bounce", by W. W. Denslow and later by C. W. Kahles, (1901–1906); "Superman", which it syndicated beginning in 1939; and "Batman and Robin", debuting in 1943.)
The Peanuts Movie
The Peanuts Movie (known in some countries as Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie) is a 2015 American 3D computer-animated comedy film based on Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts", produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the fifth full-length "Peanuts" film, and the first feature film in 35 years. The film is directed by Steve Martino from a screenplay by Craig and Bryan Schulz (Schulz's son and grandson, respectively), and Cornelius Uliano, and stars the voices of Noah Schnapp as Charlie Brown and, via archival recordings, Bill Melendez as Snoopy and Woodstock. The film sees Charlie Brown trying to improve his odds with the Little Red-Haired Girl, while Snoopy writes a book about the World War I Flying Ace as he imagines himself as a legend trying to save his love interest and fellow pilot Fifi from the Red Baron and his army.
List of minor characters in Peanuts
The following is a list of all notable secondary characters in the American comic strip "Peanuts". Begun in 1950 by Charles M. Schulz, "Peanuts" saw several secondary characters come and go throughout the strip's fifty-year run. With the exception of JT and other Cedar Fair live show humans.
An adult person from Cedar Fair's Peanuts live show Peanuts Balancing Act who helps Charlie Brown and Lucy the imporntance of balance, this person never appears in comic strips nor animation and looks like a real human and is performed by a male or a female.
A never-seen cat lives next door to Snoopy. The main focus on this cat occurred in the 1970s, although Charlie Brown mentioned "the cat next door" as early as November 23, 1958. Snoopy often taunts the cat (usually starting with, "Hey, stupid cat!"), who generally responds by violently carving up his doghouse in a single swipe. They often have fights, with snoopy generally coming worse off. The neighbors who own the cat have complained to Charlie Brown about Snoopy harassing their "kitten". The cat's name was revealed to be "World War II" in the October 20, 1976, strip.
Charlotte Braun first appeared on November 30, 1954. She was originally intended as a female counterpart of the strip's protagonist, Charlie Brown (hence her self-applied nickname "Good Ol' "Charlotte Braun""). In the few comic strips that she appeared in, Charlotte Braun had the trait of speaking too loudly, a trait uncomfortably similar to Lucy van Pelt, although the two characters never appeared together (Charlotte did appear with Linus). Schulz decided to abandon Charlotte Braun after only ten appearances because "he had run out of ideas" for her, didn't think that the character's personality was very developed, and realized that fans were not particularly liking this character, the latter thanks to a letter from Elizabeth Swaim, a fan who wrote to him to complain about Charlotte Braun. On January 5, 1955, he sent a letter back to Miss Swaim, saying in reply, "I am taking your suggestion regarding Charlotte Braun, & will eventually discard her... Remember, however, that you and your friends will have the death of an innocent child on your conscience. Are you prepared to accept such responsibility?" The letter ended with a sketch of Charlotte Braun standing with an axe in her head. The last time she appeared was on February 1, 1955.
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The strip was declared second in a list of the "greatest comics of the 20th century" commissioned by "The Comics Journal" in 1999. The top ranked comic was George Herriman's "Krazy Kat", a strip Schulz admired (and in fact was among his biggest inspirations), and he accepted the ranking in good grace, to the point of agreeing with it. In 2002 "TV Guide" declared Snoopy and Charlie Brown tied for 8th in its list of the "Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of All Time", published to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
The Complete Peanuts
Schulz began to discuss an anthology of his work with Fantagraphics Books in 1997. The idea of a complete compendium of all published "Peanuts" strips was long resisted by Schulz; he did not want some early strips reprinted as he felt they were not as good as the ones he drew later in his career. Approximately 2,000 of the 17,897 strips had never appeared in a previous U.S. collection.
Dell Comics
In 1933, Dell collaborated with Eastern Color Printing to publish the 36-page "Famous Funnies: A Carnival of Comics", considered by historians the first true American comic book; Goulart, for example, calls it "the cornerstone for one of the most lucrative branches of magazine publishing". It was distributed through the Woolworth's department store chain, though it is unclear whether it was sold or given away; the cover displays no price, but Goulart refers, either metaphorically or literally, to the publisher "sticking a ten-cent pricetag [sic] on the comic books".
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
A Boy Named Charlie Brown is a 1969 American animated comedy-drama film, produced by Cinema Center Films, distributed by National General Pictures, and directed by Bill Melendez, it is the first feature film based on the "Peanuts" comic strip. It is also the final time that Peter Robbins voices the character of Charlie Brown (Robbins had voiced the role for all the Peanuts television specials up to that point, starting with the debut of the specials, "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" in 1963), and the same voice cast from the 1969 TV special, "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown", replacing old with two new voice actors of Sally and Schroeder.
Goldenberg's Peanut Chews
Peanut Chews were developed and, during most of their history, manufactured by the Goldenberg Candy Company, which was founded by a Romanian immigrant, David Goldenberg in 1890. Peanut Chews were first introduced in 1917. The candies were originally developed for use by the U.S. military as a ration bar during World War I. The high-energy, high-protein recipe and unique taste made it popular with the troops. In 1921 Harry Goldenberg introduced the first wrapped Peanut Chews candy for retail sales. In the 1930s the candy was converted from a full-size bar to small individual pieces. In 1949 Harry and Sylvia Goldenberg (2nd generation) purchased the Peanut Chews Division of D. Goldenberg, Inc. to focus solely on the production of Peanut Chews candies. In 2003 Just Born, Inc., a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania–based candy company, purchased the Peanut Chews brand and the Northeast Philadelphia manufacturing facility.
Great Pumpkin
The Great Pumpkin was first mentioned by Linus in "Peanuts" in 1959, but the premise was reworked by Schulz many times throughout the run of the strip, and also inspired the 1966 animated television special "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and had brief mentions in "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown" (1972) (in which the mention of it almost blows Linus' chances in a school election); "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown" (1974) in which Sally expresses her concerns about the Easter Beagle's reality to Linus, citing her previous experience with the non appearance of the Great Pumpkin; and "You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown" (1975) in which Linus goes into the pumpkin patch to make a makeshift motorcycle helmet for Charlie Brown for a motocross race, with Charlie being teased as being the Great Pumpkin by some race fans. It was also briefly referenced in "The Peanuts Movie" (2015), where Linus says he hopes the new kid in town, later revealed as the Little Red-Haired Girl, would be willing to believe in it. The best-known quote regarding Linus and the Great Pumpkin, originally from the comic strip but made famous by the TV special, is: "There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."
Moomin comic strips
The newspaper that would publish the Moomin comic strip ended up being "Evening News", part of the Associated Newspapers syndicate, which was the largest afternoon newspaper at the time, with a circulation of 12 million. The comic strip "Moomin" was first published in the newspaper on 20 September 1954. Sutton had organised a very prominent advertisement campaign to support the start of the new comic strip. The strip was quickly sold to other countries, particularly the Nordic countries. In Finland, the strip started on 21 April 1955 in "Ilta-Sanomat", the largest afternoon newspaper in the country. In the same year, the strip also started in the Swedish-language local newspapers "Västra Nyland" and "Vasabladet", and in 1957 in "Åbo Underrättelser". Most newspapers publishing the Moomin comic strip were European, but it was also published in more distant places. In North America, it was finally sold to the Canadian "Toronto Daily Star", but in the United States, no newspaper worthy of note accepted it on its pages.
Peanuts
"Peanuts" continues to be prevalent in multiple media through widespread syndication, the publication of "The Complete Peanuts", the release of several new television specials (all of which Schulz had worked on, but had not finished, before his death), and Peanuts Motion Comics. Additionally, BOOM! Studios has published a series of comic books that feature new material by new writers and artists, although some of it is based on classic Schulz stories from decades past, as well as including some classic strips by Schulz, mostly Sunday color strips.
Comic strip syndication
In 1933, just as the concept of "comic books" was getting off the ground, Eastern Color Printing published "Funnies on Parade", which reprinted in color several comic strips licensed from the Ledger Syndicate, the McNaught Syndicate, and the Bell-McClure Syndicate. Eastern Color neither sold this periodical nor made it available on newsstands, but rather sent it out free as a promotional item to consumers who mailed in coupons clipped from Procter & Gamble soap and toiletries products. The company printed 10,000 copies, and it was a great success. Eventually, Gaines and Eastern collaborated in 1934 to publish the ongoing title "Famous Funnies", which ran for 218 issues using a mixture of newspaper strip reprints and some original material, and is considered the first true American comic book.
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As the years went by, Shermy, Patty, and Violet appeared less often and were demoted to supporting roles (eventually disappearing from the strip in 1969, 1976, and 1984 respectively, although Patty and Violet were still seen as late as November 27, 1997), while new major characters were introduced. Schroeder, Lucy van Pelt, and her brother Linus debuted as very young children—with Schroeder and Linus both in diapers and pre-verbal. Snoopy also started to verbalize his thoughts via thought bubbles.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
By the early 1960s, Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts" had become a sensation worldwide. Television producer Lee Mendelson acknowledged the strip's cultural impression and had an idea for a documentary on its success, phoning Schulz to propose the idea. Schulz, an avid baseball fan, recognized Mendelson from his documentary on ballplayer Willie Mays, "A Man Named Mays", and invited him to his home in Sebastopol, California, to discuss the project. Their meeting was cordial, with the plan to produce a half-hour documentary set. Mendelson wanted to feature roughly "one or two" minutes of animation, and Schulz suggested animator Bill Melendez, with whom he collaborated some years before on a spot for the Ford Motor Company.
Tom Everhart
The paintings using Schulz's comic strip, Peanuts, as subject matter began and replaced the skeleton and nature related paintings in 1988. The inspiration came to Everhart in Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was undergoing several operations for stage 4 colon / liver cancer in the summer of 1988. Everhart recalls lying in a hospital bed surrounded by enough flowers to open a florist shop, piles of art books and a stack of Peanuts comic strips sent to him by Schulz. The light streaming in from the window almost projected the new images of his future Schulz inspired paintings on the wall. All the images in Everhart's work are in some respect derived from Schulz's Peanuts comic strip.
She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown
This program was written from a relatively long series of Peanuts comic strips originally published in 1974. The strip had other subplots that were left out of the special, and changes were made to the storyline by the time it went to the small screen. For instance:
Schroeder, Linus van Pelt, and Lucy van Pelt appear, but they are silent. However, Linus and Lucy both only have one line in this animated television special.On April 16, 1995, Paramount Home Video released the special on a double-feature VHS with "Play It Again, Charlie Brown". Warner Home Video released it on October 18, 2011, under a single-disc DVD called: Happiness Is...Peanuts: Snow Days. It was also released by Hi-Tops Video once and Kartes Video Communications, Media Home Entertainment with "It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown". This special was re-released as part of the DVD box set Snoopy's Holiday Collection on October 1, 2013.
The Peanuts Movie
"The Peanuts Movie" held its premiere in New York City on November 1, 2015, and was released on November 6, 2015 in the United States on 3,897 screens. The release commemorates the 65th anniversary of the comic strip and the 50th anniversary of the TV special "A Charlie Brown Christmas". The film was originally scheduled for November 25, 2015, and in November 2012 was rescheduled to November 6, 2015. The film was released as "Snoopy and Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie" in the United Kingdom and Australia in late December 2015. The Australian release date was postponed to January 1, 2016.