The all-time greatest comic strip
The brothers Schulz can be heard talking about new Peanuts media — Monte on a DVD, and Craig on NPR.
The new “Peanuts Motion Comics” sound like fun. Unfortunately, I don’t have iTunes.
Charles Schulz was from Minnesota, of course, so it’s no surprise that a TV station there highlighted the animated Peanuts comics. (Note that the clips were taken from TV specials.)
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Until Tuesday night, I was wondering if Jeopardy! contestant Meredith Robbins, a library media specialist from New York, had a chance of catching up to Larissa Kelly. It didn’t happen.
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This answer was in the first round. Bet you know the question. 😉
No “blockhead”, this cartoonist drew his first breath in Minneapolis on Nov. 26, 1922
Meredith was an interesting contrast to Larissa Kelly, who always bet big in Final Jeopardy. Meredith was a strong contestant, but she lost because she didn’t bet enough at the end. She won her first three appearances despite losing in Final Jeopardy each time.
While Larissa Kelly remains the all-time winning woman in Jeopardy! I unfortunately must report that she is no longer the #1 search hit on this blog. Larissa is now second behind… AAUGH! … Sarah Palin.
Fifty eight years ago today, Peanuts began. The first strip has been reprinted a zillion times, so instead I’ll post the first anniversary strip, from October 2, 1951.
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A reporter for the L.A. Times went north of San Francisco to wine country, and stopped to visit the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa. I’ll get out there myself sometime with the family, but first Dennis and I will be making a return trip to NYC in November for the Big Apple Con aka: The National.
Yesterday, I pointed out the Schulz Library that’s up in Vermont. But what about the books the man himself had in his studio? A sneaky visitor to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California offers a glimpse, at this link. I wish he had provided a link to a larger, high-resolution image, but I recognize one title there that’s on my own bookshelf — Citizen Soldiers, by Stephen Ambrose.
Did you know there’s an old firehouse in Vermont that’s now The Schulz Library? Now you do.
