In a world of Scott Adams, be a Charles Schulz.

[applegrove]

In a world of Scott Adams, be a Charles Schulz.

"When charles schulz's distributor pressured him to eliminate Frankling from "Peanuts" because he might offend pro-segregation southerners his response was "Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How's that?"



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Applegrove:

[rsdsharp]

1. They didn't call him "Sparky" for nothin'!

[FakeNoose]

2. Another thing I always loved about Charles M. Schulz

His girl characters got just as many funny lines as his boy characters.

[Mister Ed]

14. And the girls did everything the boys did.

They were all on the ball team.

[TwilightZone]

15. No.

"A Charlie Brown Christmas", for example, is quite overtly religious.

Charles Schulz was also a Sunday School teacher. He was pretty open about his faith.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2016/04/the-spirituality-of-snoopy/479664/

[3catwoman3]

4. That piece is like a piano version of...

…pat your head rub your stomach.

[applegrove]

5. I know. You have to be so talented to play it.

[johnp3907]

7. So you're saying I shouldn't have chosen it as the first song to try to play on piano?

[Brother Buzz]

10. My sister started with Vince Guaraldi's Cast Your Fate to the Wind

Vince Guaraldi lived up above us in Mill Valley. We knew all about Cast Your Fate to the Wind, and heard him play it often when he opened his windows and filled the entire valley with wonderful music. Somewhere along the line, it started morphing into, what we later learned, was all the Peanuts music; it wasn't until we saw the first Peanuts special, we figured it all out.

Listen to it, and see how much he borrowed from it, time and time again.

[TlalocW]

11. Wynton Marsalis put out a CD in 1995

Called "Joe Cool's Blues" which featured covers of a lot of Guaraldi's Peanuts songs as well as some new ones inspired by them. The liner notes talked about how Ellis (Wynton and Brandford's father) would actually make them watch Peanuts specials as kids because according to him it was the only time you could hear good jazz on TV.

[Brother Buzz]

13. I believe Vince Guaraldi would have approved

Good stuff, thanks.

[emulatorloo]

6. K&R

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. K&R

[Hekate]

9. It's good to be reminded why Peanuts & Schultz were so beloved

[TlalocW]

12. After Schulz's passing

There was, of course, a lot of different news agencies and other entities looking at his career, and one of them focused on Schulz's introduction of Franklin and showed a letter he received from someone in the South that was dismayed at a Black kid going to school with White kids like Peppermint Patty and Marcie. I can't recall exactly what was in his response, but it was one of the classiest, "Go fuck yourself," responses I've ever seen.

[ItsjustMe]

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