As many fans of the Peanuts comic strip know, fifty years ago Charlie Brown and company first appeared in ads and commercials for Ford cars. Courtesy of Denro, here is a brochure for the 1961 Ford Falcon. The affordable Falcon was very popular, but the name conjures an image of a powerful bird of prey, … Continue reading The ‘Peanuts bird’ before Woodstock
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 … Continue reading Peanuts On Disc and Online
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 … Continue reading The lure of grapes and ‘Peanuts’
A drawing by Charles M. Schulz shows how John McCain would have us see him — young and energetic, and ready to move into the White House.
I took some time off from blogging. Let’s pick up where we left off, with Peanuts and politics. The Charles M. Schulz Museum has an exhibit called Political Peanuts, running through December 1. And Peanuts Rocks The Vote this year with a nicely designed Flash animation page. Happy birthday to Amy Schulz Johnson, back on … Continue reading Peanuts Rocks The Vote
In yet another prescient political drawing by Charles M. Schulz, John Edwards waits by the phone for Barack Obama to call about a possible Cabinet post. (That’s a $400 haircut?)
