New exhibits on display are celebrating the upcoming centenary of the birth of 'Peanuts' cartoonist Charles Schulz, born in Minnesota on Nov. 26, 1922.
SANTA ROSA — In a series of"Peanuts" comic strips that ran in mid-April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his kite, which was stuck in what came to be known in the long-running strip as the"kite-eating tree."
Schulz carried the lifelong nickname of Sparky, conferred by a relative after a horse called Sparky in an early comic strip, Barney Google. Bill Watterson, creator of"Calvin and Hobbes," described in a 2007 Wall Street Journal review of a Schultz biography the difficulty of looking at"Peanuts" with fresh eyes because of how revolutionary it was at the time.
"Celebrating Sparky" also focuses on Schulz's promotion of women's rights through strips about Title IX, the groundbreaking law requiring parity in women's sports; and his introduction of a character of color, Franklin, spurred by a reader's urging following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Those Apple programs introduced new viewers to the truth of what Schulz drew, his wife, Jean Schulz, told The Associated Press last year. She described that truth this way:
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