Camera-ready comic art drawing for <i>Peanuts</i>
date: label: date made
content: 1966-09-25
name: label: graphic artist
content: Schulz, Charles M.
label: publisher
content: United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This pen-and-ink drawing prepared for the <i>Peanuts</i> comic strip shows Lucy pulling the football away just as Charlie Brown tries to kick it.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Charles Monroe Schulz (1922-2000) started the weekly single-panel humor series <i>Li'l Folks</i> shortly after World War II. The series included and introduced Schulz's characters, Charlie Brown and a Snoopy-like dog. <i>Peanuts,</i> a revised version of the same strip, was debuted in 1950. Schulz drew the strip for the length of its run.
label: Description (Brief)
content: <i>Peanuts</i> (1950-2000) debuted after a revision of a similar strip <i>Li'l Folks.</i> During the course of its run the strip ran internationally with its universally recognizable characters Charlie Brown, Lucy, Snoopy, and others. One of the strip's more popular story lines involved Charlie Brown trying to kick a football, and Lucy pulling it away at the last minute. <i>Peanuts</i> was adapted into various media, including comic books, commercial animations, feature films, television specials (such as <i>A Charlie Brown Christmas</i>) and the Broadway musical <i>You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,</i> which had a five-year run in the 1960s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Comic Art
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content: Communications
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Newspaper Comics Council, Inc., New York, NY
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.22400
label: catalog number
content: 22400
label: accession number
content: 277502
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Pen and Ink
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 42.1 cm x 61 cm; 16 9/16 in x 24 in