peanuts

Charles Schulz was, by all accounts, a master of the comic strip and his Peanuts legacy continues to touch fans worldwide through its blend of simplicity and insight long after our blogging bones are laid to rest. So what could ComicsAlliance have possibly discovered to improve upon our impression of Charlie Brown and the gang...

Art: Dan Hipp imagines a kinder world where Hellboy and Abe Sapien can spend Halloween dressed as their favorite heroes instead of fighting frogs and other supernatural threats. Webcomics: Axe Cop is currently hosting a costume contest. If you dress up as an AC character, you could win a guest appearance in the series...

From loving superhero mash ups to significantly more literal translations, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang aren't unaccustomed to receiving tributes from the greater art community - and it looks like there's more on the way, thanks to the arrival of new Peanuts Moleskine notebooks...

In today's day and age, it may be hard to fathom an era when comic strips were promoted in advertisements worded like movie promotions, but long before "Scott Pilgrim" trailers and "Marmaduke" trailers graced YouTube, "Peanuts" had such ads...

If there's one thing that rivals hands in the scheme of difficult physical attributes to illustrate, it's hair. Perhaps that's why so many cartoonists have opted for iconic hairdos that aren't necessarily natural, but rather recognizable helmets of iconography...

LTL Prints has just launched a comics wall art series, featuring panels from classic comics like "Flash Gordon" and "The Phantom" -- at up to 7 tall. Made of "self-adhesive fabric paper," the prints can be removed and reapplied from surfaces up to 100 times, and the site allows you to select the size, ranging from a laptop width of less than a foot to around 7 feet ta

A new Threadless submission features the "Peanuts" gang as you've never seen them before... as peanuts. The photo features characters like Peppermint Patty, Marcy, Sally, Franklin, Schroder, Pigpen, Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and Lucy hand-painted on the shells, along with my personal favorite, Woodstock as a tiny shelled yellow peanut...

Despite the wealth of flashy gimmicks and potential visual delights permeating the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy, there is little debate that the newer films are lacking the same quality that made the initial trilogy so wonderful. If only George Lucas had the foresight to substitute the Gungans or the Trade Federation droids with something significantly more worthwhile, who knows how great

Aside from maybe Ralphie in "A Christmas Story," poor old Charlie Brown is just about the saddest little boy in fiction. Not that he's particularly depressed or bestowed with a bad life -- he's just a bit of a dud, one of those kids from elementary school that you paid little mind to because he was, well, boring...

Beloved "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz touched a lot of people over the course of his nearly six decades of professional cartooning, but I gotta say, his letter to a displeased fan shines some serious light on his interaction with readers...