#Charles M. Schulz Museum

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Charles M. Schulz Museum, Tokyo

#snoopy #sculpture #Charles M. Schulz Museum #japan #white

[thepastisalreadywritten]

You can’t keep a good dog down, Charlie Brown.

When NASA launched a mission to the moon last week, the unmanned cabin included a stuffed Snoopy in an orange flight suit.

The space beagle was among the small items that serve as “zero gravity indicators,” which visually signal that the capsule has reached “the weightlessness of microgravity.”

Turns out, the agency couldn’t have picked a better pop culture symbol:

For seven decades, Snoopy and the rest of the “Peanuts” gang have defied the forces of time, freed from the gravitational pull of trends.

The globally beloved cartoon characters still pop up daily in comic strips, books and gift shops, as well as in animated specials, both new ones and the classic holiday programs such as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” that now stream on Apple TV Plus.

“Peanuts” is in the ether as surely as the jazzy Vince Guaraldi Trio riffs that bounce along the airwaves once Christmastime is here.

This year, the headquarters of Team Peanuts in Santa Rosa, California, has another reason to hold gatherings at its museum and library and ceremonies at its ice rink:

It’s the centennial of the birth of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. “Sparky” Schulz, who was born 26 November 1922 and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Schulz died in February 2000, the same weekend that his final original strip was published.

Yet what he launched into the zeitgeist in 1950 remains a cultural touchstone. On Saturday, many syndicated cartoonists will mark the centennial in their strips.

So why does “Peanuts” endure so strongly — remaining so firmly woven into the fabric of popular culture — when so many aspects of mass entertainment all but disappear?

Jeannie Schulz, widow of the cartoonist and president of the Charles M. Schulz Museum’s board of directors, puts it concisely:

“Sparky tapped into a universal humanity and translated it into simple lines with a subtle humor.”

Those elegant, poignant, slyly simple lines curled and curved their way into religion and sports and war and mental health and love unrequited.

To mark the centennial, The Washington Post asked celebrities from various areas of achievement what Schulz’s creation has meant to them.

‘As good as anything ever’

Producer Lee Mendelson approached Schulz in the mid-’60s with an idea: Coca-Cola was interested in a TV project.

Out of that seed grew one of the two greatest animated Christmas shows to emerge from that decade: a classic that, like “How The Grinch Stole Christmas,” melded the genius of artistic minds.

Schulz teamed with animator Bill Melendez and, working under a deadline of mere months, the three men created “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” a masterpiece that daringly led with its heart.

Charlie Brown battled seasonal depression, Snoopy engaged in flights of fancy and Linus Van Pelt delivered the biblical monologue that, out of the mouths of a babe, still moves viewers regardless of age or faith.

“Over the course of my life, I’ve probably watched ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ more times than any single episode of television,” late-night host Jimmy Kimmel says. “It’s one of the main reasons I decided to have more kids.”

Kimmel thinks that special reflects the larger excellence of what a boy from Minnesota ultimately gave to the world.

“As soon as our daughter Jane learned to read, I bought her all the ‘Peanuts’ anthologies,” the comedian says. “I bought an original drawing of Snoopy by Charles Schulz that may very well be a forgery. I cherish it even if it is.

“The best of Peanuts is as good as anything ever. For me, it’s one of the greatest achievements in American art and literature.”

Pixar chief creative officer Pete Docter, director of such films as “Inside Out” and “Up,” says that brilliance was firmly rooted in the comic strip, which launched in fewer than a dozen newspapers before eventually being syndicated to thousands, becoming one of the most widely read strips in the world.

“Schulz was brave enough to talk about human, adult, often non-funny things in his strip,” Docter says. “He featured kids dealing with anxiety, insecurity, jealousy, unrequited love, which gave ‘Peanuts’ a real weight and importance.”

Growing up in Minnesota himself, Docter was drawn into a world that stays with him today.

“As a kid, I was totally hooked by Snoopy and the escapist fun and humor of that character,” he says.

“But whether Schulz was conscious of it or not, it was those deeper emotional things that made me continue to read into adulthood. Those deceptively simply drawn characters have real complexity and depth."

“And besides, they’re still funny 70 years later. How many comic strips can claim that?”

Bay Area author Gene Luen Yang considers how Schulz’s comic evolved from revelation to quiet revolution.

Says Yang, author of such graphic novels as “American Born Chinese”:

“He is so influential that pretty much every strip-format comic today, whether in the newspaper or on the web, has borrowed a bit of that innovation.”

‘We stayed close’

Ever the athlete, Schulz embraced baseball, golf and hockey from a young age. He grew to love sports like tennis and these passions regularly found their way into his strip.

Before he befriended some professional athletes well into his career, though, Schulz could not have known how much he buoyed them.

“As a young skater growing up, it was always fun to see the comic strip and celebrate everything we experienced at the rink,” says figure skater Scott Hamilton, who won Olympic gold in 1984.

“To see the ‘Peanuts’ [characters] come alive on the ice made it seem like what we were doing was more than just skating. We had a place in popular culture.”

Schulz relocated to Northern California in the late ’50s, but you couldn’t take the Minnesota boyhood out of the man.

In Santa Rosa, he built the Redwood Empire Ice Arena, also known as Snoopy’s Home Ice, in 1969. And there, in the early ’80s, Hamilton began working with Schulz on ice shows.

(The skater will host “Sparky’s Ice Spectacular” at the venue on Saturday to mark the centennial.)

“Sparky was very hands-on in everything he did,” Hamilton says.

“In one of the productions I did for him, he had this dream of doing a cocktail party where I got to play the host of the party.

That character was interested in a girl at the party, but she gets swept off her feet by another guest, kind of like his stories of the Little Red-Haired Girl in the comic strip. Just when it seems he lost the girl, she comes back after all the other guests had left.”

Adds Hamilton, “To see how much Sparky loved that production made it one of my all-time favorite skating memories.”

Schulz also became a strong supporter of equality in sports, which included joining the board of trustees of the Women’s Sports Foundation, founded in 1974 by tennis icon and civil rights activist Billie Jean King, to “advance the lives of women and girls through sports and physical activity.”

Schulz would not only draw Snoopy serving aces. He would also reference his friend King.

“Sparky was actually very shy, and his comic strips were a great source of inspiration and comfort for me, especially as I traveled the world during my tennis career,” King says.

“I knew if he added my name to a ‘Peanuts’ strip, he was checking in on me and wanted to have a chat.

“We stayed close until he passed, and I will always cherish that.”

’A perfect pairing’

Mendelson, who died in 2019, believed in creative serendipity. He once told The Post that the first time he heard the music of Vince Guaraldi — while driving across the Golden Gate Bridge — he thought he might use it someday.

Singer-songwriter Ben Folds views Guaraldi’s music as inseparable from the classic “Peanuts” animation it accompanied.

“When you match the music with ‘Peanuts’ and the era and what it was doing and saying, then it starts to hit like Beethoven Piano Sonata time,” Folds says of Guaraldi’s sunny West Coast sound that “distilled jazz into something popular.”

Guaraldi’s “Peanuts” songs and the animated specials were “a perfect pairing,” he says, adding that the music “just gets the vibe.”

That “loomed large” when Folds was asked to write theme music for the recent streaming Peanuts special, “It’s the Small Things, Charlie Brown.”

He meditated on Guaraldi’s music rather than trying to imitate it: “I didn’t try to drop riffs. I just went with the color.”

‘Pursue their dream’

This month, “Jump Start” creator Robb Armstrong appeared on a Schulz Museum panel with other celebrated cartoonists to share personal stories about the Sparky they knew.

As he sat onstage, Armstrong appreciated that Schulz “made other budding artists either realize their dream, pursue their dream or smooth the road on their journey.”

“He was one of the most grand-hearted human beings I’ve ever encountered,” Armstrong says.

A 6-year-old Armstrong was inspired by “Peanuts” in the summer of 1968, when Schulz integrated the strip by introducing a Black character: Franklin.

Armstrong’s reaction: “I’m in this strip.”

(About a quarter-century later, Schulz gave Franklin the last name of “Armstrong” in a salute to his friend and syndicated colleague, an honor the “Jump Start” creator calls “otherworldly.”)

Barbara Brandon-Croft, the trailblazing creator of the comic “Where I’m Coming From,” also responded strongly in 1968.

“I was excited to see a Black character in ‘Peanuts.’ Even if Franklin’s presence was only that — a Black kid amongst the group — it absolutely made a difference,” she says."

“When you grow up as an ‘other,’ which is what this country laid out for us, when you see yourself represented, it gives you a sense of belonging.”

‘The cool astronaut’

Schulz, a World War II Army veteran, was long fascinated with aviation.

NASA and “Peanuts” have a long relationship that includes the Silver Snoopy Award, which is bestowed upon outstanding NASA contractors and employees.

In 1969, Schulz appeared in public alongside the Apollo 10 astronauts who rode in the module called “Charlie Brown.”

That was also the year that a future astronaut was inspired by Snoopy and space.

“In 1969, the Mets won the World Series, [astronauts] landed on the moon and I went to see ‘A Boy Named Charlie Brown,’ the new animated feature, at Radio City Music Hall, says Mike Massimino, an engineering professor and space adviser.

“It all happened within a few months of each other, and it kind of set up the passions for the rest of my life.”

That year, Massimino received a stuffed Snoopy astronaut toy as a gift.

In 2009, on his second NASA space mission, Massimino took that same Snoopy toy into space, a symbol of his lasting attachment to “Peanuts.”

Noting that his attempts to become an astronaut failed three times before he was accepted, Massimino says he admires Charlie Brown’s spirit of optimistic resilience.

“Charlie Brown is the friend and person I wanted to be, and Snoopy is the cool astronaut I wanted to be,” Massimino says.

Adds the astronaut, “I think it’s the greatest comic strip and characters ever created.”

#Snoopy #Peanuts #Charlie Brown #Charles Schulz #Charles M. Schulz Museum #Snoopy’s Home Ice

[benjaminlclark]

Eisner Award Nomination

The book I wrote with Peanuts fan extraordinaire Nat Gertler has been nominated for a Will Eisner Award by the people who bring you Comic-Con International in San Diego each year! Voting has closed for the comics publishing industry award, but it’s been a thrill just to be nominated. I’ve never won an award and tended to roll my eyes at the idea of being grateful for a nomination, but I get it…

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#Charles M. Schulz Museum #Comic-Con 2023 #Comics #Comics History

[timmurleyart]

Snoopy in space. 🚀🪐🐶🇺🇸

#snoopy #snoopy dog #peanuts #peanuts gang #charles m schulz #pop art #contemporary art #andy warhol #nasa #nasa photos #space suit #outer space #solar eclipse #space ship #space art #space station #charlie brown #Charles m Schultz museum #cape canaveral #silver Snoopy #good grief #vince guaraldi #cartoon art #cartoon strip #moon landing #cell animation #animated tv series #space center Houston #space flight #spaceship

[conformi]

Charles M. Schulz, Linus van Pelt, 1952 VS Hermes Pio-Clementino | Belvedere Antinous, second century AD (copy of a bronze by Praxiteles)

#Charles M. Schulz #Linus van Pelt #linus #Peanuts #comic #comic strip #comics #Hermes Pio-Clementino #Belvedere Antinous #vatican #Museo Pio-Clementino #musei vaticani #vatican museums #città del vaticano #marble #statue #sculpture #ancient rome #antinous

[redgoldsparks]

This coming Sunday July 30 2023 I am helping my friends Sam Sattin and Rye Hickman @ryehickman celebrate the launch of their new book Buzzing at the Charles M Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa! More info here. The festivities start at 1pm, and will include short comics readings by Mary Shyne, Amber Padilla, and Thien Pham, then a panel with Sam and Rye which I will moderate. We'll have books for sale, and will be available for book signing, chatting, etc after the readings and panels. It's $12 for adults, $5 for youth/ students and free for members to enter the museum which itself is very worth the visit. Stop by and say hello if you're free this weekend!

#comics #events #santa rosa #charles m schulz museum

[peanutsstudio]

San Diego Comic Con 2023!

We're getting ready for Comic-Con International: San Diego, the annual comic book convention and nonprofit multi-genre event is a colossal effort. The creative team at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates works with the licensing office in NYC, Peanuts Worldwide, to bring the booth to life. The four-day event, which opens with Preview night on Wednesday, July 19th, and then runs from Thursday, July 20 through Sunday, July 23, requires hours of work to plan, prep, and stage boxes, at our office, headquartered in Santa Rosa, Calif. We filled four pallets (labeled for specific days, so the booth has inventory each morning!), then wrapped them to ship.

The creative team at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates prepares for San Diego Comic-Con 2023! But it’s not all work for the creative team. There’s always a little time to play around and have some fun.

From left, Caitlin Leonard, Tifanee Smith, Amanda Fagundes, Alena Carnes, Emma Harmon (front), Jewel Jackson, Cameron Nilsson (back), and Karri Kenoyer. Here’s a sneak peek of this year’s Comic-Con exclusive hat, celebrating all things Snoopy for Beagle Scouts fans, courtesy of Paige Braddock, Chief Creative Officer here at the Schulz Studio.

Patch design by Mary Shyne. On the show floor, you’ll find the Peanuts gang at Booth #1635, where you’ll be a happy camper to discover Snoopy himself, making in-person appearances throughout the con. 

Preparing to set up camp on the show floor. Look for the Peanuts gang at Booth #1635.

Hope to see you at Comic-Con! Join us in the Gaslamp at the Peanuts Pop-up shop, where we’ll set up camp at 200 J. Street, Suite 105, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. We have plenty of activities planned for our guests and some fun new merch for outdoor enthusiasts.

Join us Saturday for the Peanuts panel!

Discover the all-new animated Peanuts content in the works at WildBrain Studios for Apple TV+, the home of all Peanuts content. Includes a sneak peek of Camp Snoopy (2024), the adventures (and misadventures) of Snoopy and his Beagle Scouts at summer camp. Plus enjoy an exclusive reveal of some exciting new Peanuts projects. Panelists include Rob "Boots" Boutilier (executive producer/series director, Camp Snoopy, WildBrain Studios),  Adam Arsenault (director, WildBrain Studios), Paige Braddock (chief creative officer, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates), Jason Cooper (senior writer, Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates), and Melissa Menta (senior vice president, marketing and communications, Peanuts Worldwide). Damian Holbrook (senior writer, TV Guide magazine) moderates. And finally, big “congrats” and a special shout-out for this Eisner nomination! In the category of best Comics-Related Book.

Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects, by Benjamin L. Clark and Nat Gertler (Schulz Museum)

Schulz Studio Editorial Director, Alexis Fajardo also contributed to this project. See you in San Diego!

#peanuts #snoopy #charlie brown #peanuts studio #comic con #sdcc 2023 #san diego comic con #sdcc #paige braddock #peanuts comics #lucy van pelt #linus van pelt #peppermint patty #charles schulz #charles m schulz #eisner awards #alexis fajardo #benjamin l clark #schulz museum #camp snoopy #wildbrain #apple tv plus

[coolcarabiner]

schulz museum + a guy who was so happy to be there :’)

#such a good birthday thanks to my baby :’) life has been hard but at least we have each other. and snoopy!! #i did feel very emo looking at astronaut snoopy… first beagle on the moon!!!!!!!! he really went there!!!!!!!! #they gave me a special birthday boy pin too and we ice skated!! it was so nice i love u snoopy museum #ok to rb this if u wanna #charles m. schulz #snoopy #posts

[bebe-benzenheimer]

#charles m. schulz #peanuts #charles schulz #the charles m. schulz museum #happy birthday

[cosmicanger]

Charles M. Schulz Museum, Tokyo

#snoopy #charles schulz #the peanuts

[without-ado]

Charles M. Schulz Museum

l the year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Charles Schulz's birth

#the peanuts #thanksgiving #charles schulz #snoopy #charlie brown #woodstock #cartoon #art #cartoons

[omniversalobservations]

Charles Schulz's 100th Birthday: A Cartoonist Tribute (November 2022)

In honor of what would have been Charles M. "Sparky" Schulz's 100th birthday on November 26, 2022, syndicated cartoonists across the country have paid tribute to the Peanuts creator in their own comic strips published on the date. Schulz is the only cartoonist ever to receive this honor - a fitting tribute for a man who devoted his entire life to cartooning.

Source: The Charles M. Schulz Museum

#comics #Peanuts #Pearls Before Swine #Garfield #Hagar the Horrible #Beetle Bailey #Heathcliff #Gil Thorp #Dennis the Menace #Baby Blues

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Spacesuited Snoopy doll floats in zero-g on moon-bound Artemis 1 mission

By Robert Z. Pearlman, 16 November 2022

"When NASA was identifying what the ZGI would be, it just seemed to make sense that it was Snoopy."

Snoopy, "the world-famous astronaut," has made it into space — again.

The white-spotted dog, who became "the first beagle on the moon" in a series of Peanuts comic strips in 1969, is now on his way back to the moon aboard NASA's Artemis 1 mission.

Snoopy, in the form of a small doll dressed in a one-of-a-kind replica of NASA's pressure suit for Artemis astronauts, is the "zero-g indicator" or ZGI on board the space agency's now lunar-orbit-bound Orion spacecraft.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Snoopy. They had to put you on a leash because you're hanging in the Orion capsule right now," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during an August photo op with the beagle (in this case, a costume character also wearing the bright orange spacesuit).

"Snoopy was the last person to be put in Orion when they closed the hatch."

Snoopy's leash, or tether, was to keep the doll in view of a camera inside Orion's cabin.

Traditionally, zero-g indicators have been flown on crewed spacecraft as a visual sign for the astronauts that they have reached orbit.

The Artemis 1 Orion is flying without a crew — other than Snoopy, four LEGO minifigures, Shaun the Sheep, and three instrumented manikins — so the doll was flown for the benefit of the public watching the launch on NASA's television channel or website.

"When NASA was identifying what the ZGI would be, it just seemed to make sense that it was Snoopy," Melissa Menta, senior vice president for marketing and communications at Peanuts Worldwide, said in an interview with collectSPACE.com.

"Snoopy has been part of the NASA history for so long."

Snoopy has been associated with NASA since 1968, when the space agency approached Peanuts artist Charles Schulz for permission to use his comic strip dog as a safety mascot in the wake of a fire that claimed three astronauts' lives.

That same year, NASA introduced the Silver Snoopy award, an honor presented only by astronauts to members of the NASA workforce whose outstanding achievements contributed to mission safety and success in human spaceflight.

"Sparky always said that he was very proud to have worked with NASA and to have had them choose his characters," Jeannie Schulz, the widow of Charles "Sparky" Schulz, said in a 2019 interview with collectSPACE.

In 2018, 50 years after Snoopy first entered service for the U.S. space program, NASA and Peanuts Worldwide expanded the use of the beagle and the Peanuts gang to help promote NASA's Artemis missions and its ongoing efforts to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities.

Since then, Peanuts has licensed companies like Hallmark to produce spacesuited Snoopy dolls, including one that was flown to the International Space Station.

The ZGI on Orion, though, is a custom creation.

To create the doll, Peanuts turned to Martin Izquierdo, a noted costume designer specializing in miniatures, who had previously made the outfits for a Snoopy-themed fashion exhibit.

Izquierdo came out of retirement to fabricate the Snoopy-sized pressure suit for the Artemis 1 mission, working together with Ted Southern, the president and CEO of Final Frontier Design, a firm developing spacesuit parts for NASA and private spaceflight companies.

"NASA sent us reference materials and they sent us the cloth," said Menta.

Over the next 25 days, Snoopy will float aboard Orion as it makes a close flyby of the lunar surface and then soars well past the moon, traveling farther away from Earth than any spacecraft made for astronauts (or beagles) in history.

He will then return home, protected by a heat shield designed to survive a reentry from lunar-return velocities.

Snoopy will splash down on December 11, having added another space mission to his credit.

It is not clear what will happen to him after that, although if returned to Peanuts Worldwide, the doll will be destined for the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California.

(A pen nib used by the late comic strip artist to draw Peanuts is also on Orion and will be going to the museum as well.)

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#Snoopy #Artemis 1 mission #Orion spacecraft #Artemis 1 Orion #Peanuts Worldwide #Charles Schulz #Martin Izquierdo #Ted Southern #Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center #NASA #Silver Snoopy Award

[benjaminlclark]

I have a new book out! The Art and Life of Charles M. Schulz in 100 Objects

I have a new book out! The Art and Life of Charles M. Schulz in 100 Objects

Charles M. Schulz: The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects It’s hard to believe, but I had a book come out on November 1st! You can get it anywhere good books are sold, but if you buy it from the Charles M. Schulz Museum, it will be signed by none other than Jean Schulz! Working with Jeannie on the book was a very special experience. I get to work with her quite a bit developing…

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#archives #Charles M. Schulz Museum #history #new #recommendations #update #what&039;s it like working in museums #writing

[beardedmrbean]

IIRC you're from California, right? Do have any recommendations for cool and/or fun places to go besides the popular ones (eg the San Francisco bridge)? My aunt is planning to travel through the state and talked about wanting to see the less mainstream touristic stuff, and neither she nor I don't know any Californian personally to ask about that (we're not American, for bigger context) - so I'm asking you cause I remembered you said somewhere you lived in Cali

I'm in the central valley, pretty close to the geographic center of the state.

I'm gonna kinda stick with a similar geographical location if I can.

Less visited but still notable places we've got Hearst Castle that's a cool place to visit William Randolph Hearst one of those more money than God types from the gilded age, Citizen Kane was a thinly veiled dig at the man, beautiful place they do tours and such. His publishing empire still exists so still money coming in, great-granddaughter and I think at least heir is a model, but we don't talk about her mom Patty.

Hopefully I can ramble less now.

Winchester Mystery House is another cool one, widow of the Winchester of firearms fame, not supernatural. Oddly enough the mystery is because of the supernatural, weird thing she couldn't stop building it and it's supposed to be set up so ghosts and spirits get confused. Hallways and stairs to nowhere all kinds of weird stuff.

MC Escher inspired interior design

Here's their twitter

I always like going to the Jelly Belly factory

California Factory - Jelly Belly Fun little tour go see how they make the jelly beans get a little history and they give you a little bag of jelly beans at the end, free tour afaIk.

There's the Charles M. Schulz Museum if you like Snoopy.

@montereybayaquarium world class operation, great place to visit check out their tumblr here. I enjoy their page, also in Monterey is Cannery Row which if anyone is a John Steinbeck fan might be interesting thing, and the pier is always nice I suggest the Clam Chowder in a sourdough bread bowl anytime it's available anywhere.

They have em all over the place, yum soup and then eat the bowl.

Little further down the road is Santa Cruz, there's the boardwalk there touristy spot with fun rides and stuff, but that's a way off from the bay area Monterey might be a bit much.

There's still a bunch of Missions from when Spain was in the process of attempting to colonize the area, most are gone now since they used to have on every 20 miles, still some here and nice for a visit history and such.

There are oodles of different types of museums in San Francisco,

Exploratorium, has a description I like "mad scientists penny arcade" always loved going there as a kid, plenty of adult stuff too

The Walt Disney Family Museum, fairly new one neat place to go

Antique Vibrator Museum because why not add that one

Tons of interesting museums, just google san francisco museums stuff will pop up.

SF also has pier 39, and Ghiradelli Square basically the same place good bread and chocolate there.

Alcatraz does tours too.

Trying to keep it to a closeish geographical area, SF itself is just full of wild neighborhoods with their own history and things to see, their Chinatown is probably the only place I can say I've have fairly authentic Chinese food, very different stuff, tasty.

Just certain neighborhoods to avoid too.

I gotta log off and get wound down for the night, but if you feel like sending me a touch more info on what they like to do and any details about "general location" I could probably be more helpful.

But I hope this is a good start at least, I'm trying for off the beaten path but not wildly obscure, cept maybe the jelly belly place.

#anonymous

[murphysmom67]

Charles M Schulz Museum LOL