Peter Robbins, the best-known voice of Charlie Brown, has taken his own life. It’s being said that Robbins was the first voice of Charlie Brown, but I am not certain of that.
Category: Charles M. Schulz
The all-time greatest comic strip
It’s the Great Tobor, Charlie Brown
It was a Charlie Brown Christmas with a sci-fi twist last month. Vincent’s guest on the “Creature Features” YouTube channel was Benjamin Clark, curator of the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
It’s the Green Record Mat, Charlie Brown
Good Grief!
Green felt, like the Russco turntables had when I was working in radio.
Peanuts Every Payday
$36,000 for a 1966 Peanuts Sunday original? How about $360,000? The Daily Cartoonist reports it’s the highest price paid yet.
http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/09/14/signed-schulz-sunday-peanuts-sets-auction-record/
Apple Peels the Peanuts Shell
Not being an Apple TV subscriber, this is a Peanuts documentary I won’t be able to watch, at least not for a while.
Good, Aged Charlie Brown
The Charles M. Schulz Museum has obtained a few more originals from a proposed strip by Sparky that didn’t take off. They were even drawn on paper with pre-printed Peanuts panels. Click to enlarge to full size, and you can see that the original India ink is much darker than the printer’s ink.
The museum has assembled the originals, and some other material, for an interesting new exhibit. More information is available from The Washington Post.
The strips were supposedly drawn by Schulz, but I’m wondering if Jim Sasseville, his assistant for the comic book stories, had a hand in producing the samples. It seems likely to me that if “Hagemeyer” had been launched, Sasseville would have worked on it, just as he did for the “It’s Only a Game” strip.