[HN Gopher] 'Peanuts,' Charles Schulz, and the state that starte...
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'Peanuts,' Charles Schulz, and the state that started it all
Author : Tomte
Score : 31 points
Date : 2023-09-01 15:04 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| easton wrote:
| Peanuts is my favorite strip. Schultz's museum in CA is very cool
| if you have an hour or two to kill in Santa Rosa.
| jonah wrote:
| And if you should ever fly in/out of the airport there - it's
| loaded with Peanuts themed artwork including trees with kits
| and mosaic murals of the characters throughout.
| JoeDaDude wrote:
| Agreed! Visitors should plan on visiting the nearby Snoopy's
| Home Ice ice skating rink as well. They have a table reserved
| for Mr. Schulz and the gift shop is a little museum in its' own
| right.
| Exuma wrote:
| I've always hated Peanuts. I remember thinking as a kid, there is
| nothing less funny and more mundane. Sorry in advance to all
| Peanuts lovers...
|
| The only thing worse was Doonesbury.
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| gwd wrote:
| IMHO they kept Schulz doing Peanuts long after he should have
| retired. I remember in the 90's looking at the current comic
| strips and thinking, "Why is this so popular? It's not really
| that funny." But then I found some books of Peanuts cartoons my
| Mom had from the 70's (or maybe 60's), and they were positively
| hilarious.
|
| Bill Watterson made the right decision by retiring from Calvin
| and Hobbes at the peak of his game.
| babypuncher wrote:
| It could be a generational thing as well. I never really
| "got" Peanuts either, even when reading the older material.
| Some strips would elicit a mild chuckle, but rarely more than
| that.
|
| The Far Side on the other hand was always something I loved.
| I read it in reprints religiously as a kid and collected a
| number of the books.
| slothtrop wrote:
| Ditto Jim Davis
| edaemon wrote:
| I was born and raised in St. Paul and have fond memories of
| searching for the many Peanuts statues that were made after Mr.
| Schulz passed away. The vast majority are still on display today:
| https://localwiki.org/twincities/Peanuts_Characters
| MBCook wrote:
| By total coincidence I was reading about the history of Peanuts
| the other day as I was trying to find out how old the kids were
| and found out where the name came from.
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| Seems an executive named it. They couldn't keep using Lil' Folks,
| due to another comic named Little Folks, and had to change the
| name. Howdy Doody was a smash hit and the kids in the audience
| were referred to as the "peanut gallery".
|
| So the strip about a group of kids became "Peanuts". And Schulz
| _HATED_ it. But he had no power at first, and was worried about
| the effect of a name change on licensees once the strip got
| really popular. Seems people had to talk him out of it a number
| of times.
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| The age? Charlie Brown is officially 9.5 years old. When the
| strip started they were all supposed to be 4, but it was adjusted
| up a few times in the early years until they reached their final
| ages.
| beloch wrote:
| One thing that surprised me when visiting Japan was that there
| are a chain of stores dedicated to Peanuts, often focusing on a
| single character. e.g. "Snoopy" stores.
|
| Turns out, the same company that owns Hello Kitty bought the
| Japanese rights to Peanuts, and they seem to have been quite
| successful with it. If you want Peanuts merchandise, visit Japan!
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