Relatively Charlie Brown

As a Peanuts book blogger, I’ve always enjoyed the category of things that look like Peanuts books but aren’t. I found two of them tonight… interestingly similar.

Who Are You Charlie Brown? a Search for Family is Wendy Brown’s search for information on her grandfather, one Charles Brown. That’s available as a print book from Zeus Publications, a bit of a vanity press operation. Meanwhile, the ebook In Search of Charlie Brown (published through Lulu, a self-publishing platform) is about a boy named Heaven who is looking for his hitherto-unknown half siblings.

Of course, our Charlie Brown was always perfectly aware of where his family was; it was Snoopy that sometimes had to go looking.

Not That Charlie Brown
So long, Charles Brown

Seen here is Charles Q. Brown Jr., probably the most powerful Charlie Brown there has ever been… except they didn’t call him “Charlie”. Mostly, they called him “sir”, as he rose through the ranks of the United States Air Force to become a four-star general… and then the Air Force …

Not That Charlie Brown
The Mystery of the 1955 Charlie Brown

AAUGH Blog reader Caren (of CollectPeanuts.com ) knows I like chronicling non-Peanuts uses of the name “Charlie Brown”, so when she saw an eBay listing for a 1955 Charlie Brown record, she knew that she should sic me on it. Clearly, this is not Schulz’s Charlie Brown. The immediate thought …

Not That Charlie Brown
Those Other Charles Schulzes

Okay, so I search newspaper archives for unimportant things out of curiosity. And checking for pre-Sparky people named “Charles Schulz”, I found a fair amount, but the one which struck me was this obituary from 1900: It’s just the fact that this Charles Schulz had a son, Charles Schulz, who …