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Posted:
Apr 14, 2008, 10:07 AM
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Inside Peanuts
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Celebrate the creation of Peanuts, one of the most popular and influential comic strips of all time, and its creator Charles M. Schulz. Through his art and storytelling, Schulz brightened the world for 50 years by transforming images of everyday life into art that explored the emotional territory of friendship, disappointment, faith and tolerance.
The exhibition follows Schulz from his Minnesota roots to his life in California and tracks the development of iconic Peanuts characters, such as Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Lucy. More than 40 Peanuts comic strips, Schulz quotes and photographs, and selected Peanuts collectibles illuminate the story of Peanuts and its inspired creator. Schulz once proclaimed, “It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was.”
Examples of comic strips by other prominent cartoonists, such as George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates) and Elzie C. Segar (Thimble Theatre Starring Popeye), show how these prominent cartoonists influenced Schulz as a young artist and contrast their elaborately illustrated style to Schulz' less ornate style.
Inside Peanuts is organized by the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, and is extended courtesy of the ToonSeum Drawing Board Fund.
For downloadable, high-resolution Peanuts artwork, please visit our online Press Room at http://childrensmuseum.bradydesign.com. Enter your login and password, or set up a login and password by clicking on the words "register here". Images are in the Image Library under the Press Room menu.
Children's Museum of Pittsburgh is open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, Sunday, noon – 5:00 pm. Admission is $8 for children 2-18 and seniors, $9 for adults. The Museum is located on Pittsburgh's historic North Side at 10 Children’s Way, Allegheny Square, Pittsburgh. For more information, call (412) 322-5058 or visit www.pittsburghkids.org.
The ToonSeum is housed inside the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, located at 10 Children's Way on the North Side and is included with the price of museum admission.
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Key Animator
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Apr 22, 2008, 7:51 AM
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The comic that I can think of that influenced by Peanuts was Calvin and Hobbes. (There may be others but...)
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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