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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Peanuts Origami

A recent addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is スヌーピー折り紙, a book of Peanuts origami projects. However, achieving hte results they show takes more than folding and connecting pieces of paper, as they want you to add faces and other markings to the pieces, which means you’ll have channel your …

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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 …