Let's have an all-purpose thread for " most-popular-comic-strip-of-all-time " PEANUTS , shan't we ?????????
To start with - is the zig-zagging up and down shirt identified with Charlie Brown now copyrighted , if there is no other Peanuts imagery on it ???
I have seen it worn , by older , not kid , persons IIRC .
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...Really , is the " Charlie Brown-style " shirt trademarked to the Schulz estate ( They bought the strip outright from United Features a bit back . ) .?
Fairly recently , THE NEW YORKER had a " grown-up Charlie Brown " - shown to be so by wearing the zz shirt - gag c0ver , by Daniel Clowes , IIRC .
It showed a twenty-something Chuck , hanging his humanities degree up on the wall - of his old room , in his parents' house ( shown looking on , as he ( clearly ) was moving back into it !!!!!!! :-)
I would think that something that distinctive might be trademarked. After all, do you know of any other character(s) with that specific shirt pattern?
Never have seen a Peanuts shirt with that pattern for sale, but I do proudly possess what I call my Linus stripe shirt in Van Pelt's distinctive color scheme from the Sunday installments. But horizontal stripes on their own are too generic to trademark.
They have made a shirt with that design before. I knew a guy that wore won, and he had his hair is a crew cut, and actually looked like a real life Charlie Brown. You will never guess what his nickname was...
Lee Houston, Junior said:
...Pat ????????? Sparky ????????? Free-Da ( An Occupier ??? ) ???????????
I just watched A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS again last night.
There's 2 characters in ther I don't recognize-- twins. Did they ever appear in the strip, and if so, did they have names?
Henry R. Kujawa said:
Yes, indeed they did! Their names are 3 and 4; their brother is 5, who also appears in the dance sequence. Details here at Mental Floss: "10 Peanuts Characters You've Probably Forgotten"
Thanks. I kinda figured they weren't just random.
The CHARLIE BROWN cartoons (note, apparently Charles Schulz was able, on TV, to use his own choice for the name of the series, not the syndicate's) are notable for capturing PERFECTLY the style of his art. Some other cartoon series based on newspaper strips have done the same, and it's a nice change from having too many TV cartoon series where the art all looks the same. (It is a problem when adapting a long-running comic-book series, when the comic-books have been illustrated by so many different artists with so many different styles, that there IS no one "style" to follow, and usually the TV cartoons wind up creating yet another new style on top of all the others.)
I think they caught my attention because it occured to me that I could actually name EVERY other character in the entire cartoon-- including the older ones who tended to fade away after the 60's-- like Violet, Patty, and Shermy. In the early strips, both Violet & Patty tended to look down at Lucy as she was younger than they were. Which got weird, as Linus is Lucy's baby brother, yet later on, he seems to be the same age as Charlie! (That's long-running newspaper comics, for you.)
...When I started this , I was in San Francisco , and a small stage theater was presenting a play that was built around a concept of parodied Peanuts characters as college0/early twentysomethings . (They were crefully avoiding using the full names , it was parody .)
The poster's visuals made it quite clear , though it avoided faces , there was a Charlie Brown-style " up-down shirt " and other visual signifyers of Peanuts...The play even had an entry in Wikipedia under its own name...But now I've forgottennthe title ! Good grief .
AAUUUGGGHHHHH !!!!!!!!!
...Two different newspapers in my area carry the version of CLASSIC PEANUTS that rund strips from the 90s - 1999 , by now . - and to-day , the rather peculiar strip that has Rerun drawing " Basement comics - whatever " is the " new " one .
I suppose this version of CP is not shown on the Web at all , is it ?????
We'd decided , IIRC , that these strips predated the point that almost all dai;ly strips' " true " version was in color , but the San Francisco Chronicle runs them in color .