It’s a Municipal Holiday, Charlie Brown

People sometimes ask me if I own any original Schulz Peanuts art; alas, I do not. I have a nice little collection of comic book and strip art, but nothing that valuable. What I do own, however, is the originals to a couple of Peanuts-referencing gags, including this one that I thought would be appropriate to share now, as we are now in the key Peanuts special season. Thanks go out to writer Derek McCulloch, who with artist Mike Bannon created this for the TV parody comic To Be Announced, for his kind permission to display this.

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A thing that might have been

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