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For a change, this a serious letter. I read R.C. Harvey’s wonderful essay on “Funnies Farrago and the Age of Schulz” with rapt attention. Someday I should like … Read more

Funnies Farrago and the Age of Schulz

Funnies Farrago and the Age of Schulz
R. C. Harvey, pictured here with his signature rabbit (Harvey the rabbit), is a onetime cartoonist and all-time comics chronicler, critic, and all-around cheerleader for the art of cartooning. Cartooning is the visual-verbal art form, the pictorial blending of word and image, verbiage and pictures, which, together, conjure meanings neither one achieves alone without the other. R.C. goes on at great length in his online magazine of news and reviews, history and lore, Rants & Raves, at RCHarvey.com.
R.C. Harvey

How Charles Schulz and his Peanuts strip re-shaped the comics medium. When he announced his retirement after producing a comic strip every day, seven days a week, for … Read more

New Exhibition at the Charles M. Schulz Museum Celebrates Snoopy’s Trusted Sidekick, in Honor of Woodstock Music Festival’s 50th Anniversary

New Exhibition at the Charles M. Schulz Museum Celebrates Snoopy’s Trusted Sidekick, in Honor of Woodstock Music Festival’s 50th Anniversary

“Peace, Love and Woodstock” event runs one year, celebrating the Woodstock Music Festival and the Peanuts comic strip’s Woodstock bird character. SANTA ROSA, CA — In honor of … Read more

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