Besides Dick Tracy, Capp parodied many other comic strips in Li ' l Abner — including Steve Canyon, Superman ( at least twice ; first as " Jack Jawbreaker " in 1947, and again in 1966 as " Chickensouperman "), Mary Worth, Peanuts, Rex Morgan, M. D., Little Annie Rooney and Little Orphan Annie ( in which Punjab became " Punjbag ," an oleaginous slob ).

During this time he discovered comic strips like Pogo, Krazy Kat, and Charles Schulz ' Peanuts which subsequently inspired and influenced his desire to become a professional cartoonist.

On December 21, 1999 a short piece, written by Watterson to mark the forthcoming end of the comic strip Peanuts, was published in the Los Angeles Times.

The opening was popularized by the Peanuts comic strip, in which Snoopy's sessions on the typewriter usually began with It was a dark and stormy night.

* 2000 – The last original " Peanuts " comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

The halftime show was a salute to both New Orleans and the 40th anniversary of the comic strip Peanuts.

Trick-or-treating was depicted in the Peanuts comic strip in 1951.

* February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.

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Vincent Anthony " Vince " Guaraldi ( July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976 ) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pianist noted for his innovative compositions and arrangements and for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip.

That move cost UPI the revenues of its previous United Feature Syndicate subsidiary, which in later years made large profits on the syndication of Peanuts and other popular comic strips and columns.

* Franklin ( Peanuts ), character in the comic strip Peanuts

* Linus van Pelt, in the comic strip Peanuts

However, a few comic strips like Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes have had considerable success in France and Belgium.

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Dolly Madison snacks are probably best known for their long association with characters from Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts comic strip.

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* In the comic strip Peanuts, whose creator Charles Schulz lived in Needles as a boy, Snoopy's brother Spike lived in the desert outside Needles.

The title of a book in the fictional series in the comic strip Peanuts, " The Six Bunny Wunnies ," is The Six Bunnie-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana.

Charles " Charlie " Brown is the protagonist in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

Other attempts to bring comic strip characters to TV did not have anywhere near as much success until one of the Peanuts directors, Phil Roman, brought the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield to TV starting in 1982, resulting in 11 specials and a long-running animated series.

It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a 1966 American prime time animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

The daily Peanuts is a strip, and the daily Dennis the Menace is a single panel.

Charles Schulz, of Peanuts fame, requested that his strip not be continued by another cartoonist after his death.

" Parts of the segment had music by Vince Guaraldi ( best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip ), which they had obtained the rights to use.

In the Peanuts cartoon strip, one of the characters, Schroeder, plays classical music ( principally Beethoven ) on what appears to be a toy piano.

" Many of the openings featured non-celebrities, but some featured stars from TV shows, most of which broadcast over CBS, such as The Bob Newhart Show and One Day at a Time, as well as other characters with a connection to the network, including William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, dressed as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock ; characters from the Peanuts cartoons ; and Fred Rogers from Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.

In 1951, The Doodles Weaver Show was NBC's summer replacement for Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows ; it was telecast from June to September with Weaver, his wife Lois, vocalist Marian Colby, and the comedy team of Dick Dana and Peanuts Mann.

* Charles Schulz, cartoonist of Peanuts, lived in Needles from 1928 to 1930.

In 2008, Cedar Point introduced Planet Snoopy, a kids ' area constructed on the site of Peanuts Playground ; it consists of family and children's rides relocated from Cedar Point's sister park Geauga Lake after it closed.

* In the comic strip Peanuts, Snoopy and Woodstock hide under a blanket from a " strange light " in the sky in a story arc spanning 29 December 1973 through 3 January 1974.

Dushku starred in an Off-Broadway production entitled Dog Sees God from December 2005, playing " Van's sister ", a character paralleled with Lucy Van Pelt from the Peanuts comic strip on which the play production is based.

" The tone of the strip is reminiscent of Charles M. Schulz's final Peanuts strip, from which the Perishers strip took its inspiration.

Among standards written by bebop musicians are Gillespie's " Salt Peanuts " ( 1941 ) and " A Night in Tunisia " ( 1942 ), Parker's " Anthropology " ( 1946 ), " Yardbird Suite " ( 1946 ) and " Scrapple from the Apple " ( 1947 ), and Monk's "' Round Midnight " ( 1944 ), which is currently the most recorded jazz standard composed by a jazz musician.

Several trademarked characters are also produced, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Winnie the Pooh, and Snoopy and Woodstock from Peanuts.

A series of May 1962 strips from Charles Schulz's newspaper comic strip Peanuts features Snoopy performing " polkas, schottishes ( sic ) and waltzes " on an accordion.

* Belle ( Peanuts ), a fictional character from the comic strip Peanuts

* Lucy van Pelt, a character from the Peanuts cartoon series

* The first appearance of Linus van Pelt in the Peanuts comic strip from September 19, 1952.

( He once said he originally intended to develop Peppermint Patty as a character distinct from the Peanuts strip ; however, he never had time to pursue a separate project and ended up introducing the character into the strip.

As the other Peanuts kids were older than Rerun, he was usually excluded from their squabbles and rivalries, and several of them were shown as protective or mentoring towards him.

* The first appearance of Rerun van Pelt in the Peanuts comic strip from March 26, 1973.

* The first appearance of Lucy van Pelt in the Peanuts comic strip from March 3, 1952.

* The first appearance of Franklin in the Peanuts comic strip from July 31, 1968.

This category contains characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.