The Brown car

Charlie Brown's Ford LTDSometimes, to get some Peanuts information, one has to reach beyond the Peanuts sources. For example, the other day while researching something else altogether, I came upon a Ford muscle car forum where a few years ago, Ford enthusiasts were discussing a Sunday strip that had just rerun. That strip, which had originally run on February 7th, 1965, showed pieces of the Brown’s car in two panels, but that was enough for one forum member to identify it as a 1965 Ford LTD hardtop 4-door. Once that’s been stated, the identification looks easy – there’s that logo on the rear panel in the first shot, the particular trim around the rear edge of the window in the second, among other smaller touches, but it wasn’t something that I ever thought to look at. It’s interesting that just as Charlie Brown had finished up his years of work promoting the smaller Ford Falcon, his family takes on the new, full-size model (this was the first model year for the LTD, then part of the Galaxie line.)

And that’s today’s bit of Pointless Peanuts Trivia! You’re welcome!

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Joe Matt, RIP

Word is going around about the death of cartoonist Joe Matt, of heart attack at his drawing board, at age 60. Best known for hiw blunt autobiographical comic book series Peepshow, his relevance to the Peanuts world is as one of the three alt cartoonists who reworked Peanuts strips to make …

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Peanuts Schultz

Alert brother-of-the-blog Dave recently pointed out that the 1946 film Our Hearts Were Growing Up (a sequel to the more-beloved 1942 Our Hearts Were Young and Gay) has William Demarest playing a character named Peanuts Schultz. A little investigation told us why the character had that name which would echo oddly to …

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You don’t know how much I wish this were real.

Sick and tired of people trying to sell bootleg Peanuts books on Amazon by listing someone besides Charles M. Schulz as the author? Sure you are, and I’ve long since stopped talking about it. But now I see that someone is trying to balance matters! Yes siree, it’s a bootleg …