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 often locally done, vary in quality.

This version appears to be still all Schulz, but Franksteined — they’ve copied one side of the body and flipped it to make the other.

Hand sticking up out of the back.

A girl angel? Radical!

Little Goblin??

This one appears to be kosher.

All the things!

A little off-model.

And this one… that thing he’s holding… I mean, this is from a 1961 high school student paper. It couldn’t possibly be meant to indicate medical reefer, right? Right??

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