Young Schulz on film

We get about 10 seconds of Schulz working on “the comic strip character ‘Peanuts'” in this short 1954 film on Art Instruction Schools. The whole thing only runs about 2 minutes, but you can skip forward to the 1:47 mark if you just want to see Schulz. (A hat tip to JPC who had pointed me toward this video.)

Art School Peanuts Creator Charles Schulz Attended: “Industry on Parade” 1954 NAM – YouTube.

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Peanuts v. Trump

The legal goings-on this week regarding Peanuts require a bit of a preface: while Peanuts Worldwide (or really Peanuts Holdings) owns Peanuts, they don’t own everything Peanuts. Lee Mendelson Film Productions has rights regarding the classic TV and film material. If I understand correctly (and that’s a real caveat, there are …

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Free comics and freaky musicals

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund‘s Jeff Trexler caught sight of this headline appearing to announce a very unlikely musical. And since I’m sending something out, let me note that Free Comic Book Day is coming up this Saturday. (Also, so is Comic Giveaway Day. This is the result of …

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The War on Snoopy

I subscribe to the print edition of The Onion, which is America’s Finest (made-up) News Source. This is actually a paper with a long history, but switched to web only for a while. When they came back to print, I jumped on board to help fund this very special outlet that …