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The syndicate took an interest and suggested that the upper strip be about the kids and the lower one about the teens.


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Eventually, however, it was agreed that Schulz would take up drawing a single four-pane strip that would continue the child subject of Li'l Folks with the power of a few standard characters.


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[5] Newspapers, in those days, sought to reduce the amount of column space reserved for comics.


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At the helm of United Features, it was invented that a joke series about small child characters could be tailored into a product to meet the wishes of the magazines.


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[6] The series would appear smaller than usual, only three columns wide instead of four.


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It would be marketed to magazines as a “space saving strip” that would grab readers' attention but take up little column space.


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The peanuts strip was formed of four rectangular squares, so they could be printed on the page of a newspaper in three different formats: horizontal, vertical, or in two rows in a square space.


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Schulz adapted to this by reducing his drawing style to as scarce as possible, as he hoped the empty space left in the squares would draw readers' attention with crowded comic pages.


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Schulz later speculated that this solution, dictated initially by lack of space, was central to the development of his characteristic drawing style.


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[7] The title of the series at the time of Peanuts was originally intended to preserve the name of Schulz's previous series changed to Li'l Folk.


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Shortly before the series was announced, however, it emerged that the name of the Little Folks series drawn by cartoonist Tack Knight in the 1930s was a registered trademark, and Knight denied using a name that would too closely resemble it.


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Since Schulz had by this point already chosen a name for the lead character in his series, he suggested naming the entire strip “Charlie Brown” or “Good ol' Charlie Brown” after it.


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However, the syndicate chose the name Peanuts (literally “peanuts”, also meaning something small or bland).


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The name was reportedly coined by the syndicate's production director, William Anderson.


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He was inspired by the popular television children's programme The Howdy Doody Show, in which the studio's child audience sat in a modest stand (“peanut gallery”) and an Indian chief who appeared as a character in the series referred to them by the word “peanuts”.


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Anderson and United Features' management believed it to be a common colloquial designation for young children, although this was not the case.


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Schulz reluctantly acquiesced to the proposed name.


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He was also promised that the name could perhaps later be changed.


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[8] In the early years of the series, Schulz asked several times to change the name.


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At the point when Peanuts began to prosper, however, the name was already considered so well established that it was no longer desired to change it.


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[9] Even in an interview decades later, Schulz said it was “the worst name any comic strip has had” and that he found it offensive that his life's work had received such a dismissive name.


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In particular, he was frustrated by complaints and queries from readers who did not understand what or who the title of the series was referring to.


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Schulz avoided using the series' name when talking about his work, saying he preferred to draw “Jaska Somebody and Sneaky”.


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[10] [8] In the names of the Tenavat compilation books and animations published during Schulz's lifetime (with the exception of a few early books), the name of the series itself was never used, but always the name of one of its characters, most often Jaska Jokusen.


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[9] [11] From November 1966 onwards, the title screen of Sunday strips always featured an equal sub-title “featuring good old Jaska Jokunen” (featuring “Good Ol' Charlie Brown”) below the series' name.


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The text, though, was left out when the font of the “Peanuts” title was changed in January 1987.


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The early years of the series Peanuts began appearing on October 2, 1950, initially in seven newspapers, which were the Minneapolis Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, The Denver Post, Seattle Times, as well as the Evening Chronicle and Globe-Times, which appeared in Pennsylvania.


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[12] The series initially featured four characters, Jaska Jokunen (Charlie Brown), Lily of the Valley (Patty), Pave (Shermy) and Snoopy (Snoopy).


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Over the next two years, however, Schulz introduced four new characters, Lipe (Violet), Amadeus (Schroeder), Tellu (Lucy), and Epu (Linus).


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[13] Initially, the series appeared six days a week.


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Sunday strips began appearing on January 6, 1952.


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[14] In its early stages, the syndicate marketed Tenav by purchasing advertising space for a series of unpublished magazines and encouraging magazine subscribers in advertisements to ask the editorial staff to take the series for publication.


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[14] Despite the syndicate's active marketing strategy, Peanuts did not immediately rise to success, but slowly increased its popularity.


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A year after its inception, the series had made it to 36 magazines, but the actual ascent began in 1952.


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The syndicate calculated that to cover marketing expenses alone, the series would have to be sold to at least 100 magazines.


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This limit was finally reached in June 1955.


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[15] [16] The Masi and Ville Vallaton comics, which began with Peanuts in the fall of 1950, increased their popularity at first much faster.


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Hank Ketcham, a draughtsman at Ville Vallattoma, was awarded the Reuben Prize by the National Cartoonists Society in 1952 and Mort Walker, a draughtsman from Mas, in 1953.


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Schulz was not awarded until 1956, but in 1965 he became the first draughtsman to be awarded twice Reuben.


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[17] After a couple of early years, peanuts began to grow rapidly in the United States and became popular in the mid-1950s especially among students.


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At the end of 1958, the series already appeared in four hundred magazines in the United States and Canada.


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[18] In the end, United Features' representatives did not have to promote Tenav at all, but merely receive magazine subscriptions.


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[16] The content of peanuts was quite different in the early stages than later.


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In the early years, the characters were often portrayed in typical small children's play and the jokes were more jokes about kids doing funny things overall and not so much about certain characters with peculiar character traits.


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[19] As the characters began to develop, children's games were little quietly left out as unnecessary plot themes.


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[20] The characters' personalities and the overall style of the series gradually settled down during the 1950s.


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More and more recurring topics began to emerge alongside the loose jokes, along with follow-up stories spanning several days and even weeks.


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[21] Jaska Jokunen was described in the first years of the series as a wise and word-ready child, but these traits gradually disappeared.


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Jaska Jokusen's lowbrow and suffering essence began to be recognisable in 1954, which some have interpreted as a crucial turning point in the history of the Peanuts, the moment “when Peanuts became Peanuts”.


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[22] [23] Peanuts gradually emerged as a phenomenally popular comic.


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It appeared on the cover art of Time magazine on April 9, 1965, and on the cover of Life magazine on March 17, 1967.


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[24] A major change in the series during the 1960s was Ressu's elevation to an increasingly prominent and dominant role and the development of the character into a more human-like one.


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[25] In particular, the “Snoopy as a pilot hero of World War I” since autumn 1965 have been said to have brought Peanuts popularity to a whole new level, creating an unprecedented craze around the series.


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[26] In 1969, during the Apollo 10 lunar flight, the command module was named Charlie Brown and the lunar module Snoopy after Schulz's characters, and in addition, NASA used Sloppy as the official mascot of the astronaut safety program.


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[24] [27] In the 1968 and 1972 United States presidential elections, a number of voters voted for Ressu as a write-in candidate.


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The state of California then enacted a law prohibiting voting for a fictional character.


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[28] Readers were very attached to the Peanuts characters anyway.


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When Schulz in 1966 drew a follow-up story for a few weeks in which Eppu and Tellu seemed to move out, he received a slew of reader letters begging him to return the characters to the series.


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[29] In order to increase his own say in matters concerning the licensing of Peanuts, Schulz founded the Charles M. Schulz Creative Development Corporation in 1971 [30] (now.


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Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates).


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Beginning in 1974, Schulz engaged in clammy negotiations with United Features to gain himself exclusive access to Peanuts content and the final word on the goodness of all licenses.


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The syndicate bent in 1980 to Schulz's terms.


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In this case, it was also agreed that when Schulz died or retired no one else would be hired to draw Tenav.


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[31] Weekday strips of Peanuts appeared in a four-pane format for nearly four decades.


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Initially, the panes were slightly wider than their height, but in 1956 they had been narrowed by an inkling and in 1975 they were changed entirely to square.


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Schulz increased the size of texting in 1977.


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Schulz abandoned the four-pane format at the end of February 1988.


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After that, strips were, as a rule, three-pane, but Schulz started doing single-screen strips as well.


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[32] Beginning in 1992, he also occasionally drew strips with only an explanatory caption instead of lines.


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[33] The number of journals publishing Peanavias rose to one thousand in 1969 and two thousand in 1983.


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[34] Before Tenav, only two other series had crossed the threshold of a thousand magazines, Helmi and Heikki and, in 1965, Masi.


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By 1984 Peanuts emerged past Helmi and Heiki as the most widely circulated newspaper comic.


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[35] It was also listed in the Guinness Book of Records in the same year as the first comic book to break the limit of two thousand magazines.


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[36] At Schulz's death in 2000, Peanuts appeared in approximately 2600 journals in 75 countries in 21 different languages.


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[37] Of the newer newspaper series, only Garfield and Lassi and Leevi managed to reach close to the popularity of Peanuts.


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By the early 1990s, Garfield reached almost the same leaf volumes.


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[38] It passed Peanuts only after Schulz's death ten years later.


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[39] Although Peanuts was the most read newspaper comic in the world until the end of the 1980s, many estimated that its influence had diminished from the “crazy years” of the 1960s, when the novelty charm had been more pronounced.


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[26] After undergoing severe bypass surgery in 1981, Schulz began to suffer from tremors in his working hand.


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[40] As a result, his straight line gradually began to become trembling.


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The change was evident more clearly in the cartoon trail of Peanuts in the 1990s.


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[41] Schulz took his only break from drawing the series in November—December 1997, and it ran for five weeks, during which time magazines published old strips as reruns.


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[42] The end Schulz had to stop drawing the series when in November 1999 he was diagnosed with advanced cancer.


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The prognosis for survival was poor, and cancer treatment deprived him of his powers to work.


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Schulz made public the news of his retirement on December 14.


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The Weekday Strips of Peanuts, drawn by Schulz before the sick scene, ceased on 1 January 2000 and the Sunday strips on 6 February.


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They were followed by the release of a further so-called farewell strip, of which there were two different versions, the weekday version on Monday 3 January and the Sunday version, which appeared as the most recent Peanvat strip, on 13 February.


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It included Schulz's farewell message to his readers and a series of images picked from previous strips, which Schulz's subordinate Paige Braddock combined, following instructions given by Schulz, as she herself was no longer able to draw.


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Schulz died by chance the night before the release of this last strip, so it appeared to coincide with the news of his death.


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[43] Schulz's message to readers, which appeared in the farewell strip, reads: “Dear friends, I have been lucky enough to draw Jaska about someone and his friends for almost 50 years.


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It's been a dream come true of my childhood.


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Unfortunately, I'm no longer able to keep the schedule required by the daily comic.


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My family does not want anyone else to continue Tenav and as a result I am now announcing my retirement.


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I have been grateful over the years for the loyalty of our publishers and the love expressed by comic book admirers.


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Jaska Jokunen, Slipy, Eppu, Tellu... how could I ever forget them.”.


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In the bottom right corner of the last screen, Snippy sits contemplative at his typewriter.


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[44] A total of 17897 peanuts appeared, of which 15391 were weekday strips and 2506 were Sunday strips.


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[37] Since Schulz died, many magazines have continued to publish old Peanvat strips in reprints.


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The syndicate has offered strips for publication to magazines starting in the 1960s, but not from the early years of the series.


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[45] United Features dropped Tenavi in the fall of 2010, and on 26 February 2011, the rival Universal Uclick syndicate became the distributor of the series.


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[46] The series then began to appear on the internet on GoComics, owned by Univeral Uclick.


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[47] In the first week of 2015, GoComics began publishing Peanuts strips from the beginning to commemorate the series' 65th anniversary under the name Peanuts Begins.


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[48] Drawn by non-Schulz Although Schulz drew the actual Peanuts newspaper strips entirely himself, there are also authorised Peanvat cartoons drawn by others.


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From 1957 to 1964, Peanuts, Nancy, Tip Top, and Fritzi Ritz appeared in comic book magazines published by Dell Comics, Peanuts, Nancy, Tip Top and Fritzi Ritz.


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They began to be ordered when Dell Comics grew tired of the recycling of old newspaper strips since 1952 in its comics magazines.


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As Schulz did not have enough working time to draw these stories, he resorted to the help of his old co-workers, whom he had become acquainted with while working at the Art Instruction drawing school.


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Jim Sasseville, Dale Hale, and Tony Pocrnich acted in succession as Schulz's “ghostwriters”, and the stories they made were published in Schulz's name.


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All of the cover art, as well as a few of the stories, were drawn by Schulz himself.


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One by one, however, all of the mentioned magazines were disbanded, so publication of separate Peanvat comics outside the strip ended in 1964.


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[49] [14] In a dispute with his syndicate over the rights to Peanuts, Schulz threatened in 1977 to not renew his contract if his terms were not agreed to.


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In this case, the syndicate secretly ordered Peanuts strips from cartoonist Al Plastino for several months so that Plastino could replace Schulz if necessary if he carried out his threat.


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However, the dispute was settled, and Schulz was told nothing about strips drawn by Plastino.


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Their existence was not revealed to the public domain until years later.


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[31] The advertising use of peanuts grew so extensive over time that Schulz could not make all the advertising drawings and could not always use Schulz's old drawings because of customers' wishes.


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Because of this, Schulz hired subordinates for his studio, who received permission to draw images of the Peanvat characters for advertisements under his supervision.


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[50] Before his death, Schulz still accepted carefully selected artists who are allowed under supervision to produce limited images for license products.


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[51] American comic book publisher Boom!


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Studios published new Peanuts cartoons in a magazine called Peanuts, which appeared from January 2012 [52] to July 2016, for a total of 39 issues [53].


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Acting as screenwriters and draughters, Shane Houghton, Vicki Scott, Matt Whitlock and Paige Braddock, among others.


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The magazine's creators and Schulz's heir felt that longer comic stories and strip comics published in magazines are two different forms of expression, so the new comics therefore did not offend Schulz's last will.


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Additionally, while living, Schulz allowed Sasseville and Hale to draw Tenavia for Dell Comics magazines, and the new series were declared to continue the same tradition.


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At no time has the newspaper strip itself been intended to continue.


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The new stories sought to paraphrase the plot themes Schulz used.


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[50] No new characters were introduced.


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Instead, many of the early characters dismissed by Schulz, such as Pave, Kielo and Lippe, were used diligently.


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The Peanvat series drawn by others other than Schulz have not been finned.


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Technique Unlike most other cartoonists, Schulz did his cartoons for fifty years on his own and never used helpers in the tussling of drawings or texting speech bubbles, not even in drawing frames of frames on the screens.


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[54] [55] Schulz did not make precise pencil drawings before typing, but only very gentle sketches to make drawing with the marker as spontaneous as possible.


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[21] In later years, he also sometimes used zipatone film to create a grey raster effect.


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[56] Schulz punched Peanuts strips with Easterbrook and texted speech bubbles with a Speedball-branded fountain pen.


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[37] He normally used a C-5 pen for texting, except a B-5 thicker for strong screams, and a B-3 if necessary.


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[57] He always used a pen tip of the same brand.


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Upon hearing that their manufacture was being stopped, he bought the entire inventory of the factory empty.


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Schulz aimed to draw strips six to eight weeks before their release.


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He always drew sets in black and white, but Sunday strips were published in colour.


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Schulz chose the colors from color maps sent by the syndicate.


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[37] Coloring was done by hand until 1999 when the process was changed to digital.


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[56] Today, weekday strips are also republished in colour in many magazines.


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[14] Drawing Style In the early years of the series, Schulz's drawing style was very clear and clean, the lines were thick and short and the characters were fussy.


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In early stripes, all characters have oversized and broad heads.


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The appearance of the characters developed, especially during the first few years, rapidly.


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When the Rinehart publishing house proposed in early 1952 to publish the first collection of Peanvat, Schulz hoped that the earliest strips would not be printed on it, as they already looked embarrassingly clunky at the time.


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The earliest Peanuts strips were visually modest, but soon Schulz began adding to their level of detail.


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[58] The strips, which appeared in the 1950s, contain a relatively large number of details, objects and scenery drawn in the background.


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Later, however, Shulz reduced the backgrounds to almost nothing, by which he sought, according to his own explanation, to omit anything that could interfere with the flow of the actual idea of dialogue and strip.


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[59] The appearance of the characters evolved over the years such that, for example, Jaska Jokusen's head became considerably narrower than the original and smaller relative to body size by the mid-1950s.


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At the same time, the eyes rose higher in the face, with which the figure became more mature looking.


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[60] In the latter years of his career, Schulz also reduced the appearance of his characters to make drawing easier.


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[61] In peanuts, the characters are always depicted from the same level and usually at the same angle.


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For example, Ressu's doghouse, Amadeus's toy piano and Jaska Jokusen's feed mound are seen (except for the early years of the series) always from the same direction, directly from the side.


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According to Schulz, readers can thus identify characters and familiar situations as easily as possible.


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As Ressu became an increasingly fanciful figure, the doghouse became more surreal as an object, so Schulz felt it could no longer have been depicted as realistic looking.


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He had also developed the appearance of his characters to be so caricature-like that they would no longer have functioned as seen from different angles.


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For the same reason, the characters were repeatedly seen in certain standard positions that Schulz had found to be functional.


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[62] Turning characters into moving animations proved challenging in its time.


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[63] Many cartoonists have noted that, despite its simplicity, Schulz's drawing style is difficult to imitate.


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[64] [65] Characters There are several characters in Peanvi, and Jaska Jokunen is usually considered to be the main character.


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However, ressu played a rather dominant role starting in the second half of the 1960s.


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In Swedish, for example, the title of the entire series is the same as Ressu's (Snobben).


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Schulz increased the number of characters gradually over the years.


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On the other hand, of the central characters of the early years, Lippe, Lily of the Valley and Pave were gradually dropped aside and eventually disappeared practically entirely from the series.


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For a long time, Ressu was the only animal character in the series, but in the late 1960s Schulz invented a bird named Kaustinen (Woodstock) as a friend of Ressu, as well as later a group of Ressu's brothers.


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[66] [13] Jaska Someone is always referred to by his full name, but only a given name is known from most other characters.


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The characters' ages relative to each other changed over the years, and characters introduced at the beginning as babies gradually grew older to the same age with others.


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[67] In later years of the series, inanimate objects could also conceive (such as Sall's school [13]) or move self-help (such as Epu's rag in a story [68]).


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Some side characters were never shown, for example the little redheaded girl or the neighbor's cat.


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Schulz, according to his own telling, had described these characters in such a way that he would no longer have been able to draw them to meet readers' expectations.


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[69] List Standard Characters Notes Character Prequels Schulz named much of the Peanuts characters after people he knew.


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Charlie Brown was one of his associates at Art Instruction, as was Linus Maurer, who gave his name to Epu, and Frieda Rich, the paragon of Kutri.


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Epu and Tellu's surname van Pelt came from a couple Schulz became acquainted with while living in the early 1950s for a year in Colorado Springs, Colorado.


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[71] Pave was named after Schulz's childhood friend Sherman “Shermy” Plepler.


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[72] Amadeus's name came from another son he knew, whose surname was Schroeder (Schulz could no longer remember his first name).


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Schulz named many of the occasional minor characters after people he knew.


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[67] In some cases, characters were based on real persons more than just in terms of their names.


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Lily of the Valley (Patty), who was part of the original characters, and Peppermint Pipsa (Peppermint Patty), who later appeared in the series, were both named and inspired by Schulz's cousin Patty Swanson.


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Peppermint Pipsa has been said to have resembled these characters more in their real-life prequel.


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[73] Donna Mae Johnson, whom Schulz had proposed to in 1950, is mentioned as the role of the little redheaded girl, but who had chosen another man instead of her.


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Schulz himself confirmed this notion in an authorised biography that appeared in 1990.


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[74] The mongrel dog Spike, owned by the Schulz family in the 1930s, has been mentioned as the main role of Ressu.


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[37] [75] Spike gave his name to Ressu's brother (Finnish. Rump), which Schulz added to the series in the 1970s.


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[76] Schulz assured in public that he borrowed only a name from real people, but the characters were based on his own character.


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[14] He also used his own children and family as paragons of his characters, according to his own narration, only very rarely.


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According to one characterization of Schulz, Jaska Jokunen represented his tendency to appease on the one hand and determination on the other, Tellu for his sarcasm, Eppu for his “strange little thoughts”, Amadeus for his perfectionism and devotion to his own art, and Ressu for his sense of self-worth.


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Lippe represented his “worst aspects”.


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[77] Adults No adults were ever shown in Peanuv, nor usually even adult speech bubbles at the time when they were conversing with children.


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The exception is three Sunday strips, which appeared in 1954, in which Tellu takes part in a golf tournament and adults appear in the background.


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[37] [67] According to Schulz, this was an unsuccessful experiment.


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Adults, she said, bordered their beginnings away from Tenavi because there was “no room” for them in strips, where children were always photographed directly in an angle of view from the page.


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However, he said the series later evolved to be so abstract in content that showing adults would have completely destroyed that idea.


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[78] Standard characters in Peanuts include some adults who are never shown, such as the children's parents and teachers, but in the later years of the series they were told less and less frequently.


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[79] In Peanvat animations, adults cropped outside the picture speak in an instrumental “kva kva” sound that can only be understood by the characters in the stories.


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The sound is produced by a muted pull trombone.


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[80] Some animated films from the 1980s were no longer so specific about the series' internal legal secrets, and adults could be shown in passing.


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[81] Residence Peanuts characters live in the same neighborhood more specifically in an unnamed suburb of the United States.


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[82] The series does not clearly indicate where in the country they live.


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Schulz says it would have been a mistake to place them in any particular location.


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[83] A few strips, however, contain mentions of identifiable places.


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In one strip that came out in 1957, Tellu shows off the award he received as “Hennepin County's tantrum-bag of the year” (Outstanding Fussbudget of Hennepin County).


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Hennepin County is a county surrounding Schulz's then-hometown of Minneapolis in the U.S. state of Minnesota.


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In a story that appeared in 1963, a boy named 5 says his father has changed the family's surname to 95472 according to the zip code.


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In the US ZIP code system, that zip code area corresponds to the California-based city of Sebastopol, to which Schulz had moved at the time.


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[67] In a series of recurring themes Common Peanuts are remembered for their numerous recurring jokes, often relating to the characters' eccentric personalities and appearing in endless variations.


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These included Jaska Jokusen's difficulties with kite flying and the catastrophically poor success of a baseball team formed by his friends, Ressu's imaginary adventures in the character of various alter egos, Epu's addiction to his safety plate, and his belief in appearing on Halloween night” To the Great Pumpkin,” Tellu's psychiatrist's stand, as well as Amadeus's fanatical adoration of Beethoven.


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[84] Much of the recurring topics appeared on the series during its first decade.


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[85] The most famous repetitive joke is probably the so-called football joke, of which Schulz always drew a new version once a year in the autumn.


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In it, Tellu asks Jaska Someone to kick an American football, but yanks it away at the last minute.


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[86] There are a total of 36 versions of the joke on Tenavi.


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[85] There were also repetitive visual jokes in Peanavs, for example the tendency of the characters to roll back exaggeratedly when they are shouted to their face.


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[84] Characters are also often depicted leaning against a low brick wall while conversing.


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Schulz invented the wall because he felt it would have been inappropriate to show children sitting on the side of a street that is a dangerous place for children.


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[62] According to Schulz, Tenavi dealt more with failure than success because “defeat is much more fun than victory” and because it is easier to relate to.


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[87] A recurring topic was also one-sided love, from which several characters suffered, albeit in different ways.


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[88] According to Schulz, his series contained certain legal secrets: “All love affairs are one-sided, all baseball matches are wiped out, all grades are fives, the Great Pumpkin never arrives and the football is always yanked away”.


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[89] Schulz admittedly broke these “laws” a few times especially in the closing years of the series.


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For example, Jaska Jokunen managed in 1993 to lead his baseball team twice to victory and in the last version of the football joke in 1999 it remains open whether he managed to kick the ball or not.


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[67] One of the themes recurred in Tenavi was the relationships of the sexes.


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In the series, the girls were domineering and often mean, the boys weak victims.


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Schulz says turning stereotypes into reverse made malice fun.


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“If [in the comic] a little boy is mean to a little girl, then there's nothing funny about it — — but if the little girl is mean to the little boy, then there's something funny about it.” [90] As Snopy's imaginary world evolved, Schulz was able to broaden the subject line of Peanuts and attach references to it to adventure series and films of his youth.


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According to Rheta Grimsley Johnson, who wrote Schulz's biography, Schulz created “a series within the set” in this way.


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[91] Schulz drew many ideas from his own life and experiences, including his own childhood.


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According to his own account, he, as a child, had been on a baseball team that once lost a match by a score of 40—0.


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[92] According to Schulz's co-biographer David Michaelis, Schulz got over the hardships of his youth, but “projected the traumas of his youth far enough into his adulthood so that they eventually became an integral part of his art”.


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[93] Schulz said he would use “everything he had experienced or felt” in his series.


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[94] In many Peanut strips, characters tell anecdotes about their parents or grandparents, inspired by Schulz's own experiences or his relatives.


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For example, Jaska Jokus's barber father refers to Schulz's father, who also was a barber.


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[95] [96] Schulz was similarly inspired by the hobbies of his children and family members.


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[21] Hokemat Tenavi is remembered by many repeated pronouncements and hokemia.


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Among the most famous are probably the update “Good grief!” (“Dear Ordinary!”) , saddling “Rats!” (“Heck!”) , “sigh” describing the sigh, the barking word “blockhead” (“pölkkypää”), and the horror cry “AAUGH” (the spelling varies in Finnish versions).


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The naive life wisdom, “Happiness is a warm puppy” (Happiness is a warm puppy), is formed by his own chapter.


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Lausahdus originally appeared together, on the “Peanvat strip” which aired on 25 April 1960.


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Following the suggestion offered to him, Schulz published a picture book of the same name, elevated to sales success, in 1962, which moved the Peanuts characters to a new format and made the phrase a trademark of the series.


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The phrase formed over time as the subject of numerous references and parodies.


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Schulz drew several strips himself, mocking the uncomplicated suckness of the original “Happiness Is a Warm Puppy” strip.


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The Happiness is a Warm Puppy book was followed by a series of similarly styled publications.


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Many fans of Peanuts viewed this exploitation of the characters' “cuteness” as undermining the true merits of the series, which were rather hidden in its sharpness and ruthlessness.


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[97] Happiness is a Warm Puppy has been translated twice, in 1972 as Onni is a warm dog and in 1984 as Onni is a calorific puppy.


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During the 1970s and 1980s, Otava also published several other books in the same series in Finnish.


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[98] “Onni on [some minor matter]” and the recurring opening phrase “Oli a dark and stormy night” in Ressu's novel scripts are well-known phrases from Tenavi.


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[99] The term security blanket apparently spread into the English language after Schulz used it in his series starting in the mid-1950s.


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[100] Schulz proudly referred in interviews to the fact that the word he launched had ended up in the dictionary.


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[101] The Society Peanuts often contained humorous references to current phenomena and topics that sparked political controversy, but Schulz always avoided taking an open stand and choosing a side, both in his series and outside it.


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[102] According to his own telling, he did not want to offend people.


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[103] Environmentalism and the promotion of women's sports were among the few controversial topics that Schulz openly defended in her series.


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[104] However, he also sometimes took an implicit stance on some of the issues he experienced as important through the characters in his series.


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For example, the appearance of dark-skinned Sam on Tenavi in 1968 was interpreted as a stance on the issue of race.


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[24] Schulz published a strip in 1963 citing a Supreme Court decision to ban co-praying in schools.


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The strip had been made in such a way that both opponents and supporters of school praying interpreted it as defending their own position.


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At Schulz's request, the strip was not allowed to be reissued for either party's purposes.


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[105] A similar stir was caused in 1970 by a strip where Eppu talks about unborn children in heaven.


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It was mistaken for a position on the issue of contraception and abortion and even this time both sides of the dispute saw it as supporting their own position.


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Schulz denied the strip was a reference to these topics.


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[106] As someone who experienced World War II, Schulz wanted to keep the memory of war and veterans alive.


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Beginning in 1969, he drew a strip each year on National Veterans Day, November 11, in which Snoopy recounts celebrating Veteran's Day along with wartime cartoon fame Bill Mauldin.


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[107] In 1998, Schulz even copied into one of these strips the Willie and Joe characters featured in Mauldin's wartime cartoons, which must have been the only time Schulz used someone else's drawing in Tenavi.


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[108] Beginning in 1993, Schulz also drew the so-called D-Day Remembrance Trip on 6 June each year on the day of the Normandy landings, laconically urging readers to “remember”.


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[107] Religion Peanuts included frequent references to Biblical narratives and proverbs, increasing the interest of many convinced Christians in the series.


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Of the characters in the series, Eppu often quotes the Bible and the Gospels.


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From Schulz's will to the first Peanvat animation, Jaska Jokusen Christmas was accompanied by a scene in which Eppu explains the meaning of Christmas by quoting the Gospel of Luke.


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[109] Schulz was a conviction Christian, and he belonged to a long-standing church called the Church of God.


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After moving to California, however, he distanced himself from his church and stopped going to church altogether.


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During the 1960s and 1970s, his religious opinions became much more liberal than previously thought.


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[110] In an interview in 1987, he speculated that he was becoming a secular humanist.


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[111] According to Schulz, Peanuts did not proclaim any interpretation of the faith and was an “anti-evangelical” rather than an evangelical cartoon.


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[110] However, according to his own telling, he wanted to deal with the Bible in his series in an intelligent way.


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[111] Schulz also said that he hates how, for example, Ville Vallaton prays in his comic book and discusses with God about his shenanigans.


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Such comics were, in Schulz's view, very shallow.


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[112] In the later years of the Peanuts, Schulz also drew many strips criticising money-raising TV preachers and fundamentalist sects.


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[113] Robert L. Short wrote two books, The Gospel according to Peanuts (1964) and The Parables of Peanuts (1968), in which he recounted the theological messages he found in Peanuts.


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Schulz and Short became friends, but according to Schulz, Short's books did not actually analyze the content of Peanuts and did not reflect his own religious views; Short merely used Tenav as a tool to express his own perceptions.


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[114] Short's first book was an immediate sales success, and Schulz speculated it had also increased the popularity of Peanuts.


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[115] In 1966 Viikkosanom published Tenavia in Finland, there was a fresh news story that was practically a direct quote from Short's book.


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[116] Short's first book was published in Finnish as Peanuts on the road to truth in 1967.


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In 2008, a new translation appeared under the name Gospel of Peanavie.


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[98] A collection of strips on Peanuts religion was published in 1984 and the beagles and the bunnies shall lie down together: the theology in Peanuts.


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It was translated in 2003 and 2004 under the names Ressu Dogmatics and Theology of Peanuts [98].


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Some have speculated that in Tenavi also Epu's belief in the Great Pumpkin would be a metaphor for religion.


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When Schulz received a reader letter in 1965 complaining that the Great Pumpkin was sacrilege, Schulz replied that he agreed and that his intention was in fact merely to show Santa Claus to be exactly the same.


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[117] Views on the content of the series Schulz drew, according to his own narration, Tenavia specifically for adults.


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He said he would get annoyed whenever someone thought the series was aimed at children.


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She was annoyed even that the first Peanut animation, Jaska Somebody's Christmas won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Children's Program in the Series because she didn't think it was a children's program.


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[118] However, the content of peanuts was reputedly always kind and harmless.


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[119] According to Robert Harvey, the Peanuts formula, starting with the first strips, was that children either respond to everyday situations by using adult language — making psychological, sociological or philosophical considerations, for example — or responding to problems in the adult world with childish reactions.


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The characters address readers as they deal with issues and emotions that belong to adulthood, but at the same time retain the innocence of children.


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Schulz felt he had brought something completely new to the comic when he took “minor coincidences”, as the starting point for jokes, as mundane occurrences as possible.


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Although similar humour had already existed earlier in other series, Schulz developed his characters to the point where humour was born more from the characters' personalities than the situations themselves.


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[84] In previous joke series, humour had tended to be more space-driven.


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[64] The content of peanuts is also based on generous repetition, with the amusing problems of the characters recurring over and over again.


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[120] In the 1950s, Peanuts were considered by many to be ahead of its time as a newspaper comic.


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According to David Michaelis, it was a transformative comic because it dealt with such psychological phenomena as alienation, uncertainty, and a sense of inferiority, which were not typical themes in 1950s American newspaper comics.


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In the 1950s, Jaska Joku, who suffers from uncertainty, was considered a new kind of cartoon character with a more authentic and talkative personality than anyone seen before.


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Peanuts were able to express characters' emotions effectively through very minimalist means, with a few words and a punch line.


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The series also dealt, in Michaelis' words, with “proper pain and loss” with “heartfelt gentleness.”


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One of the first themes of the series in its early stages was the mutual cruelty of children.


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[120] According to cartoonist Stephan Pastis, Schulz broke away from the formulas of Peanuts and other strip comics in 1954 when he began making “in a bold way non-funny” strips out of Jaska Jokusen's pathetic underbelly, which gave Peanuts a new level of depth.


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[22] According to Michaelis, Tenav has a therapeutic effect on his readers: identifying with the characters of the series and laughing at them helps to deal with their own problems.


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Especially Jaska Somebody is considered the kind of character everyone can relate to.


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[120] According to Michaelis, American students and young intellectuals of the 1950s became interested in the lines of Jaska Jokus's inner anxiety and uncertainty, which were interpreted as existential statements about the human part of the world.


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Both Jaska Jokusta and Schulz himself were called “the youngest existentialist”.


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Some also linked Peanuts to the spiritual world of the beat generation.


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[120] Since then, the series became mainstream.


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As the US national community fragmented as a result of the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War and cultural shift, beginning in the late 1960s, Peanuts formed a common denominator and, for many, a spiritual getaway.


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[121] [122] One of the most famous analyses of the content of Peanuts is the essay “Jaska Jokus's World” published in 1963 by Italian semioticist Umberto Eco.


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According to Eco, Children of Peanuts portray the mental problems of adults in modern society.


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“These children suck at us because they are monsters in a sense: they are monstrous, infantile minuscules of all the neuroses of a modern citizen of real civilization”.


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The childlike sincerity of the characters makes the reader feel despair at times, between optimism.


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According to Eco, Peanuts pleases cultured adults and children alike, where consciously civilized comics like Pogo only appeal to a narrower audience.


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[123] Rating of the level of decline according to Finnish journalist Jussi Karjalainen “A rather indivisible view is that Peanuts was not only the most popular newspaper comic in the world in its most intrigued years from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s”.


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[124] Many felt that Peanuts became more lackluster and childish over the years in an effort to please an ever wider audience.


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[125] Schulz himself admitted in interviews in his old days that Tenavi had become decidedly softer than before.


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He explained this by the fact that as age grew, the perspective on things became different.


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[126] At the same time, the psychological “real world” of Jaska Jokusen and his friends, as well as the silly imagination world of Rappy, began to intermingle clearly, resulting in an increase in the amount of absurd humour in the series.


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[127] Bill Watterson, a draughtsman for Lass and Levi, stated in the 1980s that Peanuts had not in itself deteriorated, but it had lost its previous pioneer status when all other cartoonists had learned to emulate the same ideas.


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[128] A more critical interpretation was put forward in 2000 by journalist Christopher Caldwell, who stated that Peanuts regressed from a brilliant comic strip after the early 1970s to an entirely uninteresting “third-rate strip” due to the Goofy gaining too much space in the series and supplanting the more talkative human characters.


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Kaustinen and Rimppu were, in Caldwell's view, even more pointless characters from Ressuak, suitable only for completely vacuous jokes.


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[129] Schulz sometimes wondered himself that he had possibly used Sneaky too much and Jaska Somebody too little in the later years of the series.


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[130] The influence on other comics Peanuts and a few other comics that started at the same time, such as Masi, brought joke series back into popularity in the United States.


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By the time of the early 1950s, continuous-plotted adventure series had dominated the comic pages of the American press for a quarter of a century.


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However, with the new trend, they were quickly marginalized.


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[131] Peanuts have been said by some to have also been involved in starting a new trend of “intellectual” sets in the 1950s, in which a reduced style of cartooning merged with more or less philosophical content.


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[64] Peanuts prospered at a time when newspapers were constantly shrinking the space reserved for comics.


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Although Peanuts had been a smaller than normal “space saving strip” when they started, the original size of Peanuts had become the normal size for strip comics in the 1980s.


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[132] The formula for the success of Peanuts proved to be easily copied in its simplicity, so the series received a lot of imitators.


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It was as a result that the influence of Peanuts on the development of newspaper comics became greater than that of many other ingenious and prestigious series, as the path Peanuts signposted was easy for other comic writers to follow.


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[133] In particular, the reduced drawing style of Peanuts and Mas and the reduction in the size of strips inspired many cartoonists to experiment with an increasingly simple and simple style and focus solely on refining jokes.


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As a result, the line between well and mediocre cartoons became more fading, which many believe led to a decline in the artistic level of newspaper comics.


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[132] Schulz himself was sorry that continuous-plotted narrative comics were dying out of the way of joke comics, and that the publication size of comics continually shrank.


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[134] However, Peanuts also inspired many later comics that have been recognised as high-quality classics.


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According to Doonesbury draughtsman Garry Trudeau, his entire career was thanks to Peanuts.


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[135] Bill Watterson, the cartoonist of Lass and Levi, named Peanuts as one of his main inspirations.


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[136] Johnny Hart's Pulter is thought to have been a key inspiration for his style from Tenavi.


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[137] Jim Davis's Garfield, Gary Larson's Far Away, Berkeley Breathed's Bloom County and Patrick McDonnell's Kamut have also been cited as comics that probably wouldn't exist without Peanav.


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[135] [138] Art Spiegelman, known for his serious comics, stated that because of Peanuts” commercial image, it was long difficult for him to acknowledge the series' impact on his own work, “because one might as well have said he took influences from breakfast cereal”, but he eventually realised its significance and quality.


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[139] Animated series such as The Simpsons and South Park have also been attached to the list of claimants of the Schulz legacy.


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[135] In addition, many comics emerged from the immediate inspiration of Peanuts in the 1950s and 1960s starring caricature-like large-headed children.


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These included Mell Lazarus's Miss Mikka (Miss Peach) and Bud Blake's Tiger.


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[140] Commercial use of the series Following the rise of Peanuts to success, Schulz began to receive ample offers in the mid-1950s from companies willing to use characters from the series in their advertising or manufacture ancillary products.


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According to his own account, Schulz was willing to take up the offers because he had a growing family to support and he could not initially know how long the success would continue.


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Schulz first drew his characters for advertising use in 1955 for Kodak's Brownie camera promotional brochure Brownie Book of Picture-Taking.


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[141] The first dolls featuring characters from the series went on sale in 1958.


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Kansas City-based Hallmark began printing Peanvat greeting cards in 1960.


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[142] [37] The number of different ancillary products began to grow, especially from the early 1960s, as Schulz readily agreed to the ideas offered to him.


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[143] In November 1959, Schulz entered into an advertising agreement with Ford Motor Company that guaranteed Ford for a fixed period the exclusive right to use the Tenavat characters in advertising the new Ford Falcon car model in all media, including television commercials.


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Schulz drew the newspaper ads himself.


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According to Schulz, the Ford deal was the first time he had access to truly “big money” (“a lot of money”).


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Under the agreement, Ford paid $75,000 for the use of the characters dating back to 1959 and a yearly increasing amount thereafter, which would reach $100,000 in 1963.


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When the money was split between Schulz and the syndicate, Schulz received a total of $216,750 for the five years of his contract.


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As part of the advertising campaign, Peanuts characters were also first animated for TV commercials, and Bill Melendez was hired as the animation director.


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The Ford ad campaign first drew wider criticism of the commercialisation of Peanuts.


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Some cartoonist colleagues accused Schulz of greed.


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At the same time, some intellectuals enamored with Tenavi complained that using the series' characters in commercial advertising eroded any credibility based on their innocence.


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Schulz didn't see a problem, as he felt Ford was a respectable and respected brand.


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[144] Schulz felt that it was pointless to blame newspaper comics for commercialisation, since they already served a commercial purpose, namely to increase the sale of magazines.


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[145] He also said he was responsible for the jobs created by the Peanuts peripheral products industry.


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On the other hand, he did not want to intervene in cases where companies that used the Tenavat license were accused of selling dangerous products or trampling on workers' rights.


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[146] Schulz adhered to the principle in the licensing agreements that profits were divided equally in three parts between himself, the comic book syndicate and the acquirer of the license.


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If a fourth party was involved, the winnings were divided equally into four parts.


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[147] Ancillary products for peanuts were sold in 1967 for a total of $20 million, in 1969 for a total of $50 million and in 1971 already $150 million.


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[148] In 1989, the sum was already $1 billion.


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Peanuts remained in the ancillary product business eventually second only to Disney.


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[149] In 2010, total sales of ancillary products were reported to be over $2 billion per year.


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[150] Around the time of Schulz's death, a variety of Tenavat products were on sale for about 20,000.


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[76] By 2009, more than two billion copies of Peanvat-themed postcards printed by Hallmark had been sold.


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In Finland alone, about 16.5 million of them had been sold.


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[151] Outside the United States, the largest market for Peanuts peripherals has traditionally been Japan.


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The unauthorized commercial and non-commercial use of characters in the series has also always been remarkably widespread.


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[152] In the United States, the most prominent company that used Tenavia in its advertising has been the MetLife insurance company, which, among other things, had three advertising zeppelins with the image of Ressu.


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[37] In 2016, the company announced that it would abandon the Tenavat license after more than 30 years.


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[153] MetLife paid $12 million annually for access to the characters, according to estimates, and was the licensees's most lucrative customer.


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Hallmark, which prints postcards, still pays about five million dollars a year for its license and the television channel ABC for the animation rights the same amount.


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[154] In addition to Ford cars and Metlife's insurance policies, Peanuts characters have advertised on US television including Dolly Madison and Weber's Bread, Chex Mix breakfast cereals, Knott's Berry Farm amusement park, Friendly's Family restaurant chain, and Regina vacuum cleaners.


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Bill Meléndez said he had directed a total of 372 commercials featuring Peanvat animations by 2001.


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[81] After sixty years, United Features Syndicate and E.W.


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The Scripps Co.


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sold the publishing rights to Peanuts in June 2010 for $175 million to Iconix Brand Group, which specializes in fashion brands, and Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, controlled by the Schulz heiress, forming Peanuts Worldwide LLC, a joint venture controlling Peanuts rights.


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Iconix owned 80% of it and the inheritance 20%.


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[154] [155] The new owners transferred the distribution of Peanuts from United Features to the rival Universal Uclick syndicate in February 2011.


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[47] In May 2017, Iconix sold its majority stake (along with the rights to the Strawberry Shortcake character for a total of $345 million) to Canadian media company DHX Media.


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[156] In May 2018, DHX announced in turn that it would sell a 49% stake in its ownership to Sony Music Entertainment Japan for $185 million, followed by DHX owning 41% and Sony 39% respectively.


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[157] Either Sneaky or Jaska Jokunen has been represented among the giant balloons of New York's renowned Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade almost every year since 1968.


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[158] Animations List General Peanut television animations have been made by 2015 in total 45.


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[37] The most popular are the so-called holiday specials formed in the United States, which are aired on television regularly every year on certain holidays and which always garner large numbers of viewers.


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CBS owned their show rights until 2001, when they moved to rival ABC channel.


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[159] The first television animation, Jaska Jokusen Christmas, completed in 1965, is the longest-running annual animated show ever in the United States.


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[81] Along with television specials, Tenavi has been made into five feature-length animated films for theatrical distribution.


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Graduates during Schulz's lifetime live, Jaska Jokunen!


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(A Boy Named Charlie Brown, 1969), Snoopy Goes Out to the World (Snoopy, Come Home, 1972), The Race Is Tough, Jaska Somebody (Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, 1977) and Happy Journey Jaska Somebody (Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!


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), 1980).


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[37] In 2012, Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox teamed up to produce a fifth feature-length animated feature film, which was executed in a different way from previous Peanvat animations as a computer animation.


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Behind the project were Charles M. Schulz's son Craig Schulz with his own son.


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[160] The Peanuts Movie (The Peanuts Movie) premiered in November 2015.


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[161] Between 1983 and 1985, a television series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show was also made for two seasons, with episodes formed from short skits based on comic strips.


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[37] No more was made of the series because, according to Schulz, it produced too much extra work for him.


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[162] In addition, an education-oriented eight-part miniseries This Is America, about American history, was made in 1988 by Charlie Brown.


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[37] In 2014, the French animation studio Normal made a 500-part series of 90-second long Peanvat short animations, all based on Schulz strips.


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[163] History First time Peanuts characters were animated beginning in January 1960 for the Ford Falcon TV commercials and the initial emblem of the Ford sponsored Tennessee Ernie Ford Show talkshow starting in 1959.


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[164] [37] In late 1963, producer Lee Mendelson made a documentary about Charles M. Schulz under the working title A Boy Named Charlie Brown and wanted to attach a short clip of animation to it.


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Bill Meléndez, who was responsible for previous Ford commercials, was invited to be the executor of the animation, and jazz composer Vince Guaraldi composed the background music.


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Collaboration on the documentary led to Mendelson offering to produce a Christmas television show, A Charlie Brown Christmas (Jaska Jokus's Christmas) sponsored by the Coca-Cola Company, which was scripted by Schulz, directed by Meléndez and composed by Guaraldi.


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At Schulz's insistence, the show did not use a background laugh and was accompanied by a religious scene in which Eppu quotes the Gospel of Luke.


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CBS management was unhappy with the program, but still decided to air it.


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However, Jaska Jokusen Christmas was already a spectator and review success at the time of its premiere.


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It won a Peabody Award and a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Children's Program.


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[165] After Jaska Jokusen Christmas, Lee Mendelson began producing more Peanvat animation almost from the conveyor belt.


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Mendelson produced all Peanvat animations right up to He's a Bully, Charlie Brown, completed in 2006.


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They were also made at Bill Meléndez's animation studio, and he directed the lead of the animations.


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Additionally, Meléndez starred in the vocalizations of Ressu and Kaustinen in all animated films until his death in 2008.


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[37] Meléndez directed the animations himself for a long time, but with the addition of productions in his studio, he transferred the directing of television specials from the 1970s onwards mainly to his subordinates.


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Following this, Phil Roman, Sam Jaimes and Larry Leichliter served as directors.


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The main animator, along with Meléndez, was Bill Littlejohn, who worked especially on the Ressu scenes.


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[166] Schulz has been credited on his own as the screenwriter of almost every Tenavat animation made in his lifetime.


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[167] Schulz and Meléndez usually designed the plots of the animated films together and others sometimes made additions to them, but the scripts have still been said to have been predominantly Schulz's handwriting.


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Some of the plot was based almost directly on stories that appeared in the comic itself, some were entirely new.


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[168] The last Peanvat animations made during Schulz's lifetime were made for direct-to-video distribution in the 1990s.


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[81] One of the hallmarks of Peanvat animations starting with Ford commercials was the use of child voice actors instead of adults, which at the top was exceptional in the industry.


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Because children grew out of voices suitable for the characters in a few years, the actors were changed more than twenty times over the course of the years.


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Due to the popularity of Jaska Jokusen's Christmas, later animation efforts were made to find children whose voices would sound similar to those used in it.


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[169] Awards and accolades Five Peanuts animated films have won an Emmy Award: A Charlie Brown Christmas (Best Children's Program 1966), A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (Screenplay made by Schulz was awarded in the Children's Programmes Series 1974), You're a Good Sport, Charlie Brown (Best Screenplay) children's special 1976), Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown (best children's factual programme 1976) and Life Is a Circus, Charlie Brown (best animation 1981).


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Twenty-three other Peanvat animated films were also Emmy nominations.


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In addition, the movie Long Live Jaska Jokunen!


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received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Musical Composition.


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[81] In November 2015, Snopy received a star of his own on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, next to a star previously awarded to Schulz.


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[170] Music With the advent of animations, Vince Guaraldi's jazz music began to be commonly associated with Tenavi.


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Notably, the piano piece known as “Linus and Lucy” is commonly known as the theme music of Peanuts.


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Charles M. Schulz himself did not like jazz at all, but was more appreciative of classical music.


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[171] Guaraldi composed the music for a total of 15 Tenavat animations before his death in 1976.


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Thereafter, animation composers were mainly Ed Bogas and Judy Munsen, until Guaraldi's music began to be used again starting in 1992 in the most recent animated films.


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[37] Guaraldi's music has also been used in some places in the 2015 film Tenavat, although the main part of its music has been composed by Christophe Beck.


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[172] Sneaky Leaves the World has music composed by the Sherman brothers and This Is America, the Charlie Brown series used a different composer in each episode.


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[173] So far the most recent television animation is the 2011 completed Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, by Charlie Brown, whose music was composed by Mark Mothersbaugh.


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[37] Unrealized Live-Action Film In 1992 Warner Bros.


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studio acquired from Schulz the rights to the film “Tenavat” with real actors, for which John Hughes, who was successful with his family comedies, was hired as screenwriter.


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[174] The project was reportedly buried in a film written by Hughes, Ville Vallato, after a poor reception the following year.


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[175] Other works inspired by Peanuts, Clark Gesner composed and penned the popular musical You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (performed in Finland as Peanuts) in 1966.


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It premiered Off-Broadway in 1967 and eventually also on actual Broadway in 1971.


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Schulz himself liked the musical greatly and encouraged Gesner in making it.


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[176] There was a new Broadway version of it in 1999.


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[177] You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown has been a decade after decade in the United States especially in the popularity of enthusiast theatres.


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It is said to be one of the most aired musicals in the United States or even the most aired.


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[37] [178] There is also another lesser-known Peanvat musical Snoopy!


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The Musical.


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[37] It received its off-Broadway premiere in 1982.


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[179] Both musicals were adapted in the 1980s as animated films.