Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 26, 2022

Happy 100th Birthday To Charles Schulz!

Bravo to Greg for honoring the Peanuts creator today. I remember when I was a little a kid, Peanuts was my favorite comic strip. My birthday present would be a few Hotwheels cars and some Peanuts treasury books.. and I was THRILLED! lol I even had a Snoopy pillow cover & sheet set.

I think there’s something just fun and wholesome about the strip that makes it so timeless.

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Did anyone else here enjoy Peanuts growing up?

Happy Heavenly birthday, Sparky! All good, no grief. Here’s a little something to celebrate both Snoopy and the season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-J4GSPgAM

I guess Sparky would’ve been one hundred years of age today if he hadn’t passed in 2000.

Lovely tribute. ✨

Thank you.

This is beautiful…

It’s no surprise that Greg honors the Master Charlies Shultz, as it seems that many “Charlie Browns” have found their way into Greg’s Strip.

I’ve always enjoyed the Peanuts comic strip.

It’s just that I wished just for once, that Charlie was “allowed” to kick that darned football.

Or better still, Lucy, who reminds Me of Bernice……, ;-)

A lot of strips today have Peanuts themes. Check out some of the others on GoComics. Alley Oop, Scary Gary, Andy Capp, Phoebe and Her Unicorn, and Dark Side of the Horse all are Schultz homages. I haven’t looked around more than these but I’m going to. Wonder if the authors all got a memo to do this today? :-)

Thank you for this—a keeper!

Also Adam@Home, Baldo…fun to see the concerted effort all the authors have made.

It’s not your fault, Puddles, you are drawn that way.

Still have some of his books.

I compare cartoonists to baseball hitters. A .300 average for a cartoonist means he/she is funny three times out of ten – not bad – it’s nearly impossible to be funny every day. In my mind, Schultz was a .600 hitter. Nobody in baseball was that good. I would not rate “Luann” in this way – as Luann cartoons are mostly part of a serial that lasts like a week or more. Luann arcs are more like little mini-plays.

Oh, Puddles, You CAN do it! Come on, do the Snoopy Jump and Wiggle and Ear-Flap!

Please, people, could we at least honor the man by spelling his last name correctly?

Schulz … not “Schultz”.

I received a personal, type written letter from Charles Schulz in 1968. I still have it.

Thank you Greg for doing this! Happy 100th Birthday, Charles Schulz!

Loved Peanuts as a kid and still do to this day. I had a hand me down sweat jacket with iron-on Peanut character patches all over it, a Snoopy watch, several comic books, a Peanuts sheet set and a Snoopy pencil sharpener just to name a few. I still enjoy collection Peanuts memorabilia on occasion. They are timeless.

I haven’t liked a Luann comic in months…eh it’s for a good cause

Schulz was the model for every syndicated artist. Not only did he do all the comic strips himself, but he was a master of moving the comic strip to different genres and merchandising. Anyone who has seen Snoopy on Ice, knows that there was no limit to the places he would put Peanuts characters. He knew how to handle the foreign marketplaces and how to get his creations into animation specials guaranteed to be shown every year. He has made the list of highest paid dead celebrities every year since he died. In 2022, he comes in at #10.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2022/10/31/the-highest-paid-dead-celebrities-of-2022-a-writer-earns-half-a-billion-from-the-great-beyond/?sh=35933dc92bb3

From an article:

Just a few hours after the death of Minnesota native Charles Schulz, his readers found a farewell in their newspaper.

Schulz’s final original Peanuts comic strip appeared in Sunday papers on February 13, 2000. It featured Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and a message from the man who brought the characters to life for almost 50 years.

The night before the comic’s final run, Schulz died peacefully in his sleep at home due to complications of colon cancer.

Schulz and Peanuts were popular and influential for Snoopy to be set to music.

❤❤❤

Love the Snoop

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This is better than having to look at Les’ ugly mug!!

Yes, it was my mother’s favorite, still feel the connection!

I remember reading Peanuts as a little kid, and the joy I felt the one time Charlie Brown actually hit the home run and won the baseball game.

Today is the day comic strip artists say Thank you to their hero. It’s a great day. I cried a little seeing this tribute and the others. The admiration was sincere and well deserved. Thank you Greg Evans, for this beautiful tribute and thank you Sparky, for still being such an important inspiration to all of us comic lovers♡.

Puddles could do the Snoopy leap, he just needs to loose a few pounds and sleep on the roof of his dog house. An engagement or two with the Red Barron would help sharpen his reflexes too.

If there’s a patron saint of cartoonists, it’s Charles Schulz…

Nice!

Great tribute!

You’ll probably get sued if you do that, Puddles.

Puddles should have danced like that just for today…

Very nice tribute! Oh how I miss the Charlie Brown TV specials being played on Networks regularly.

It was wholesome and honored American values and Christians Principles. It brought people together into a common culture with shared values.

Now, with the internet, divisiveness springs everywhere as iconoclastism pervades all the new media (which infiltrates the legacy media).

What a nice tribute! Good job Greg!

nicely played

Many other strips are doing Peanut tributes today

Yes Sir! My Favorite! Stead fast and true! Thank you Sparky! Thanks for the great tribute Greg!

Nice tribute, here’s more – https://schulzmuseum.org/tribute/

Hey Puds, Snoopy is a beagle like you (long nose and short legs). Instead of wishing you could do something, why not try? I’ve seen you with energy.

Sunday: Brad and Toni snuggle.

Monday: Bets shows up at The Gulag? or back to “Luann, the budding novelist”?

Stay tooned !!!

That’s nice Greg! I have his LAST comic strip, from the Detroit Free Press. I still have to get it laminated and framed.

Wonderful likeness and great tribute!

More tributes——Working Daze, Reality Check, Rubes & Real Live Adventures.

Happy 100th in Heaven Sparky!

Aww, poor Puddles.

It was a joy to see all the cartoonists who gave tribute to Charles Schulz and Peanuts. :-D Well done!

Loved “Peanuts.”

I have them on DVD and watch every single holiday!

I really like how many of the strips are recognizing Charles Schultz.

Puddles, you can absolutely do the happy dance when you know the secret: let yourself go!

Snoopy’s a hard act to follow but Puddles is up to it. Let him take up the mantle… not of Elijah but of the most famous World War One flying ace.

The man was, indeed, a genius.

Be sure to visit the Charles Schultz museum in Santa Rosa, CA

Thanks Greg! Charles Schultz was one of a kind. Most kids young and old have read #Peanuts with Charlie Brown and gang.

Thanks Greg for the awesome tribute to the legend in the comic book world Charles Schultz Peanuts would never been the same without this genius of a man.

Nice to see all the tributes for one of the best…..

https://schulzmuseum.org/tribute/

A special tribute. Happy 100th Birthday Sparky. You are missed.

Love these tributes today! I’m clicking on comics I hadn’t read in years just for these warm, silly tributes— most featuring Snoopy rather than his human, CB.

I recommend especially Six Chix and Wizard of Id.

Thank you Greg

Beautiful tribute! So tragic he was taken from the world when he was! “Peanuts” will never be forgotten!

We did

:golf clap:

Poor Puddles!

But no cartoon-dog can match up to the peerless Snoopy.

So just sit back at you favorite French bistro and have a tall, cold root beer….

Happy hundredth, Sparky, in your heavenly days!

This is one of the most beautiful tributes done today. Happy Heavenly Birthday Sparky and thank you ♥♥

Thanks for the tribute, Greg Evans!

It’s not Christmas til Charlie Brown Christmas comes on TV. Comic strip was a daily event..but that show marked a whole season’s arrival.

Beautiful tribute!

After our ho-hum Sunday, I suspect that we will return to Gunther’s ghetto. Just don’t let Les anywhere near Tiffany and the bathtub. One slip and that guy will leave an oil slick reminiscent of the Exxon Valdez.

No. The ‘Peanuts’ series was essentially the reflections of a sad, depressed man.

I don’t usually read the comments on this strip as so many are really negative. I hoped today would be an exception, and for the most part it was – the effect Schulz had on many people.

Sweet tribute. :-)

Lose weight,Puddles,and you can.

To live is to dance.To dance is to live.

I have to say, that’s a really good rendering of Snoopy doing the happy dance! (They also nailed Garfield a few weeks back)

So not Mallet, Steenz or any of those awful people that work for King Features?