Comic strip artist Robb Armstrong was 6 when Franklin, the first Black “Peanuts” character, debuted in Charles M. Schulz’s beloved comic strip on July 31, 1968. Schoolteacher Harriet Glickman had written Schulz after the assassination […]
We all know Linus and Lucy, Schroeder and Pig Pen, but there are dozens of kids from Charles Schulz’s Peanuts strips that the ol’ blockhead himself would have trouble identifying. Like Shermy — Charlie Brown’s one-time best friend and original […]
On May 30, 1951, Charles Schulz introduced a new character to the Peanuts gang named Schroeder. The thing is, he looked quite a bit different than the Schroeder everyone knows. First off, he was a baby, […]
As much as I love Charles Schulz’s Peanuts strips, I don’t usually think of them as “funny.” Words like “cute” or “quaint” probably come to mind first in regards to Snoopy and the gang — you know, old-fashioned […]