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Peanuts (also known under the name of Snoopy and Peanuts or simply Snoopy ) is the name of a Comic strip written and drawn daily, without interruption and assistance by American Charles Mr. Schulz (1922 - 2000) of October 1950 until its death, in February 2000. He will have written on the whole 17.897 strips including 2.506 editions of the dimanche.
Peanuts is a series of Gag S which turns around two central figures, a boy awkward, unlucky person and depressed, Charlie Brown and her dog, Snoopy. The strip is based on the principle of the running gag (Comique of repetition) where the same situations between the characters return throughout the cartoon. Moreover, each character have their characteristics, their obsessions and their accessories specific to them, which re-appear with each time they apparaissent.
Peanuts also gave rise to cartoons, of which several received a Emmy Award , with plays and musical comedies.

The comic was, starting from the Années 1960 a planetary success, in particular with the the United States. The popularity of the strip and the colossal number of licenses for publicities or derivative products made Charles Mr. Schulz one of the richest celebrities of the world, it writes under the nickname of Sparky a strip humorous weekly magazine entitled Li' L Floks , in the local newspaper of its birthplace, the Saint Paul Pioneer Close . The protagonists are children, one recognizes there several characters of the future Peanuts . Schulz, which gains only 10 $ per week, request at the end of two years an increase and a better site of the strip in the newspaper. The writer refusing his request, it then ceases collaborating. He also sells, these same years, 17 drawings with. In spring 1950, Schulz receives a letter d' United Features Syndicate , which is said interested by its strip ( Li' L Folks ). It leaves for New York, in June, to propose new a strip to them, which takes again some of the characters of Li' L Folks . The strip is sold and the October 2nd 1950 appears in seven daily newspapers with the the United States ( The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Mineapolis Tribune, The Allentown Cal-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Earth-Times, The Denver Post and The Seattle Times ) the first comic, under the name of Peanuts . Schulz in the beginning would have preferred the name of Good Ol' Charlie Brown (“Good old man Charlie Brown”) but the United Features Syndicate which managed the national diffusion of the series insisted that the name of Peanuts ( Cacahuète S in English) is retained - name that Schulz hated: “… the worst name than one gave as a cartoon. It is completely ridiculous, that does not have any direction, that does nothing but install confusion and deprive the strip of dignity - whereas I am convinced that my humor is worthy. To give this name to a work which was going to be that of a life, it was really offensive. ” explain-you it in an interview. The first month, Schulz receives 90 $ on behalf of the trade union and that of the Life Magazine the March 17th 1967. For the first time, the market of the edition starts to sell other objects that books, derivative products: cups, bowls, figurines, socks, pyjamas, sweat shirts, cuddly toys, etc Peanuts becomes a prey for publicities. To the top of its popularity, the merchandizing and the success of the comic strip give to Schulz an annual remuneration of more than 30 million dollars
The year 1965 mark also the special first '' television '' of the Peanuts , has Charlie Brown Christmas (Christmas of Charlie Brown), produced by Warner Bros and Bill Melendez. This cartoon is diffused on the chain Gilligan' S Island the December 9th, with more fifty-five million of televiewers. In the comic, Peppermint Patty (1966), Woodstock (1967), Marcie and Franklin (1968) then Rerun (1973) join the group.
Schulz crosses at the same time one rather difficult period. In 1966, his/her Carl father dies and a fire destroyed its studio, with Sebastopol. In 1990, at the time of the fortieth birthday of the Peanuts , a great retrospective exposure is devoted, with the Musée of decorative Arts in the Palais of Louvre. Schulz is seen there giving the medal of the Commandeur of Arts and the Letters , by Jack Lang, then Ministre for the culture.

End of the Peanuts

Whereas it ages, Charles Mr. Schulz resists not to take a pause and continues to write daily. He explains, whereas he is 65 years old: “… lately, the majority of my friends leave to the retirement and I wonder whether I did not waste a life. It arrived to me of the things that I had not dared to imagine, and I will thus die happy. But there is always this vast world outside, of which I do not know anything and I am married with a woman who adores to travel, then I say myself " thin, there is perhaps other chose". How to know when the arteries will stop themselves and explode, and that it will be the end? Do I may find it beneficial really to remain there sitted, to make my strip daily? ”

The May 27th 2000, the National Cartoonist Society Schulz reward of a Lifetime Achievement award . The August 17th 2002 opens the Charles Mr. Schulz Museum , in homage to Schulz and to the Peanuts .

Peanuts will be regarded one of largest the cartoons of the XXe century and as the most famous Comic strip. Charlie Brown and Snoopy will be classified eighth of the Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters off AlTime ( classification of the 50 larger characters of all times ) by TV Guides. The '' Forbes magazine '' will place Schulz third in their classification Top Earning Dead Celebrities (Classification of the most important incomes of the celebrities deceased), after Kurt Cobain and Elvis Presley, with an annual income of 35 million dollars. On the whole, Peanuts will have made 1,2 billion dollars sales including 350 million with the the United States.

New TV specials were created after death of Schulz, but always on the basis of comics old.

Characters

Peanuts is one of the first comics strips to have inserted more than two or three characters. The Peanuts are a group of children who throw on the world a contemplative glance, at the same time childish and adult. They have each one their characteristics and their practices. They act cynically with sadism: Umberto Eco will say in presentations of a book Snoopy , “ these children affect to us because they are monsters. They are the monstrous and infantile reductions of all the neuroses of the modern citizens of industrial civilization ”. He will add “ the universe of Peanuts is a Microcosme, a small human comedy for the ingenuous reader like well-read man ”.

Schulz draws the children with a thick graphics minimalist and features. They are remarkable thanks to their round famous persons. Schulz moreover never drew adults in Peanuts . It always drew the characters on the same level: “ I preferred to draw my characters from the same point of view throughout the strip because the ideas functioned in the brevity and I did not want to stop the flood of what was said or made. For this reason there was no place for the adults. ”, Frieda in 1961, Peppermint Patty in 1966]], Woodstock in 1967, Marcie and Franklin in 1968 and finally Rerun in 1973.

Charlie Brown

Animations

In addition to the newspapers and many books, the characters of Peanuts appeared many times in the animated form. This begins in 1961 for a series of televised commercials for the car model Ford Falcon . Publicity is animated by Bill Melendez, which becomes a friend of Schulz.
In 1963, the producer Lee Mendelson decides to make documentary animated called has Servant boy Named Charlie Brown with Schulz and Melendez. They produce all the three the special first TV of Peanuts in 1965, has Charlie Brown Christmas , which gains a Emmy Award and a Peabody Award.
The special TV harvest an insane success and gives following the course of the years to forty others TV special .

In France, animations of the Peanuts are managed by Citel Video, of the restaurants Friendly' S , the Root beer A&W , of the cereals Cheerios , of the vacuum cleaner Regina , the cameras Kodak , of the cars Ford , of the stores Carrefour, etc

Several large companies of toys, like Hasbro, signed agreements with United Media to produce plays inspired of the characters of the comic.

1,5 billion charts Peanuts Hallmark were sold since 1960

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