The all-time greatest comic strip
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is starting right now on ABC. Will Charlie Brown kick the football? Will the Great Pumpkin visit Linus? Of course not! And we wouldn’t want it any other way.
If you missed the Great Pumpkin tonight, don’t worry, it’s on again Friday night at 8 ET.
A 60 Minutes interview with Charles M. Schulz from 1999.
Assuming Charlie Brown was supposed to be five years old when Peanuts premiered in 25 newspapers, sixty years ago today, he’d be getting ready for retirement. But, thankfully, there’s no end in sight for the timeless creations of Charles M. Schulz.
Less than a month before the 60th anniversary of the introduction of Peanuts by United Feature Syndicate, there is the announcement that the strip will leave United Media for Universal Press Syndicate, now called UClick.
Snoopy is still on the job, pitching for MetLife…
… but why is he reading The New York Times, a newspaper that has never had a comics page?
The Daily Cartoonist reports that ABC-TV has signed a five-year contract to continue airing the Peanuts holiday specials. Which is good, because ten years after moving from CBS, I still need more time to get used to them being on ABC!
