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Snoopy vs. Peanuts
Peanuts was an often-mordant strip about childhood angst. Over the years—like many other newspaper comics subjected to the relentless burden of production—it was sanded smooth and soft, and Kevin Wong...
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Wah wah, wah, wah wah: Peanuts text-to-adult speech translator
The Wah Wah Machine translates your text into the unintelligible trombone vocalizations of all adults in the Peanuts movies. It's a very clever promotion for The Peanuts Movie out next month. (Bonus...
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The Today show hosts dressed in terrible, scary Peanuts costumes
This morning, the hosts of the TODAY show dressed as ridiculously bizarre and frightening interpretations of the Peanuts characters. "I'm actually Charlie James Brown!" Al Roker said. "TODAY goes nuts...
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Peanuts Every Sunday: The 1950s Gift Box Set
See sample pages from this book at Wink. On October 2, 1950 a boy named Charlie Brown first appeared in American newspapers. Peanuts popularity grew steadily and on January 6, 1952, the strip’s first...
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Peanuts Every Sunday: The 1950s Gift Box Set is a collection absolutely worth...
See sample pages from this book at Wink. On October 2, 1950 a boy named Charlie Brown first appeared in American newspapers. Peanuts popularity grew steadily and on January 6, 1952, the strip’s first...
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A place for Peanuts fans to go wild
Roppongi Hills is a very hoity-toity shopping area in Tokyo. You have to buy tickets to get into the mall! But a seven minute walk from the Roppongi subway station you will find the brand new Snoopy...
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Recreating a classic Moebius comic with Peanuts characters
Jesse Orion writes, "This is Jean 'Moebius' Giraud's '40 Days in the Desert B' recreated page by page with characters from Charles Schulz' 'Peanuts'!" (more…)
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Only What's Necessary – A whole lot of Peanuts and Schulz stuffed into one...
See sample pages from this book at Wink. Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts by Chip Kidd (author) and Geoff Spear (photographer) Harry N. Abrams 2015, 304 pages, 12 x 9 x 1...
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How "A Charlie Brown Christmas" almost wasn’t
A Charlie Brown Christmas won the 1966 Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program. Half of US viewers watched it when it aired. But the project was under threat of being killed every step of the way. From...
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Stephen King's Peanuts
Illustrator Hal Hefner created this great double homage to Charles Schulz and Stephen King. It does seem as if he missed an opportunity to put Marci in a denim jumper and holding a sledgehammer,...
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Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
From Wikipedia: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown is an animated short directed and animated by Jim Reardon, who would later become director and storyboard consultant for The Simpsons. The cartoon...
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"Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown," animated Peanuts spoof by Simpsons...
In 1986 while a student at CalArts, Jim Reardon, who went on to direct numerous episodes of The Simpsons, created this fantastic faux trailer for "Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown," a bizarro world...
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Vans sneakers featuring the Peanuts gang!
The new Vans x Peanuts sneaker collaboration is killer. These are just a few of the many shoe styles and graphics available.
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The voice actors behind the Peanuts gang (1968)
This is a photo of the voice actors behind some of the animated characters in the Peanuts gang. Notice that all the kid roles are actually voiced by children. Kristy Sproul of Voice Chasers, a...
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This #PEANUTSBBQ t-shirt shows Marcie of 'The Peanuts' gang as the BBQ snitch
So THAT'S what happened to Marcie. She became the BBQ snitch. (more…)
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Watch the trailer for "Snoopy In Space"
Snoopy has been a NASA mascot for more than 50 years going back to the Apollo missions. Now, Snoopy is headed to the International Space Station for a new cartoon series, Snoopy In Space, launching...
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Today, the Planters' Peanut brand announced the "death" of Mr. Peanut, the jingoistic mascot-in-a-monocle who sold his own people down the gullets of Americans for more than a century. It is with heavy...
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Somebody matched scenes from Peanuts TV specials to "Roundabout" and the...
A lot of work went into finding snippets from various Peanuts TV specials to make it look like the Peanuts gang is performing "Roundabout" by Yes. The hard work paid off!
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How to draw yourself as a Peanuts character
Anthony from Today at Apple shows you how to draw yourself in the style of a Peanuts character. He's using an iPad and an Apple Pencil, but I bet you could also use a pencil and a sheet of paper to...
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Charlie Brown's voice actor, Peter Robbins, died from suicide
Peter Robbins, who was the voice of Charlie Brown in Peanuts cartoon TV specials in the 1960s, died last week from suicide. He was 65. Robbins began voicing Charlie Brown in 1963 and was such a fan of...
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The beauty of the Peanuts soundtrack
Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown, passed away last week, which may prompt you to go back and watch some classic Peanuts. For some reason, irrespective of the massive cultural shifts...
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Watch the ultraviolent Peanuts parody, "Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown"
What if Sam Peckinpah had made a Peanuts television special? It might be like "Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown," a 1986 film made by CalArts student Jim Reardon, who went on to work on The Simpsons...
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Charles Schulz, creator of "Peanuts," on Democracy
My personal cartooning hero, Peanuts author Charles Schulz was sent a letter in 1970 from a ten year old student asking what makes a good citizen. Schulz responded with a letter that resonates strongly...
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Buy Charles Schulz's home/studio in Sonoma County
The Sebastopol, California, home that Charles Schulz used as his office and studio from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s is up for sale, for almost $4 million. It looks like a beautiful, but small (one...
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"Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz" tells the life...
The new book Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz presents the story of the creator of the Peanuts comic strip, through over 400 pages of comic strips. It's a very interesting...
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A new "Peanuts" movie is coming
Apple TV+ has announced it is producing a new animated movie based on the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schulz. It will have much of the same creative team as the 2015 Fox film, The Peanuts...
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New York dancer, 25, dies from peanut allergy after eating cookies that...
A 25-year-old woman with a severe peanut allergy died in New York City after eating cookies that were not labeled as containing peanuts — as required by law. Órla Baxendale, a UK-born dancer who had...
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Charles Schulz's 1970 letter to a schoolchild describes the fake patriotism...
Who knew that the creator of Charlie Brown and Snoopy was also a clairvoyant for democracy's future? In 1970, fifth-grader Joel Lipton sent a fan letter to Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, asking him...
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Bizarre 1941 footage shows women swimming in giant pool of peanuts at first...
Got Weird is one of my favorite Instagram accounts. I love the fascinating, fun, delightfully weird things that I come across on their page. In this post, the Weirdsters share footage of the very...
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The original Charlie Brown Christmas special promo from 1965, with an...
Here is the charming original CBS promo for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" from 1965. There's a scene shown in which Charlie Brown tries to play Schroeder's piano and is punched clear out of frame by...
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