Jean Schulz on The Great Pumpkin

The Deseret News (Salt Lake City) has this little article on the Great Pumpkin special (which has already aired in the U.S. this year, sorry for not giving you folks a heads up.) It’s just a little piece that reflects on how the show has been embraced by generations, and some of what the museum was doing surrounding the 40th anniversary… but grrrr, they misspell Schulz’s name. And not consistently; the first sentence alone contains both the correct and incorrect spelling. If it’s not still misspelled when you click through, then someone fixed it. (Link courtesy of The Comics Reporter.)

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Got a few little bits of news to get out of the way… and let me clear the sad one up front. Skip Hinnant passed away on Sunday. Skip was many things (folks of my age might best remember him as Fargo North, Decoder on The Electric Company), but for the …

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