the Star Trek/Peanuts links

With a new Star Trek film about to come out, I’ve been thinking about the links between Peanuts and  Trek… and I don’t mean just the interesting moment at which Schulz referenced Star Trek in the strip.   There are people links as well – cartoonist Dale Hale, who crafted many of the Peanuts comic book story, also worked on the animated Star Trek series of the 1970s. Another name then came to mind as having credits in both the Star Trek and Peanuts world…. but rather than tell you, I reckoned I’d ask who among the fellow geeks in the AAUGH Blog readership can come up with a name, thinking that if I did so, perhaps you’d think of folks other than what I’m thinking of.

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A thing that might have been

In 1958, the vocal jazz/pop band The Hi-Lo’s were riding high. Having released their first album in 1954, they were already working on their eighth… and they wanted to name it after a Peanuts book. As the Washington D.C. newspaper The Sunday Star reported, they were floating the idea of …

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Charles’s Angel

In 1961, Charles Schulz designed a promotional character for the United Fund (i.e., the group that is now called United Way.) He gets named “Little Angel”… or, depending on the press release, “Little Good Guy”. The character appears in promotions for a few years. The reworks of him, which are …

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Up and down, up and down

AAUGH Blog reader D.D., who heads the fine blog The Daily Cartoonist (go check it out), put in the time to find an example of the one eight-panel Peanuts daily in vertically-stacked format, as I mentioned wanting to find in a previous post. Go take a gander at its verticalness! …