![]() Sometimes, Schulz’s friends even made an appearance in print. “ didn’t offer any answers, only comfort in knowing that we all suffer the same worries and disappointments,” Catterall writes, “and it showed us how these bittersweet moments could form the wellspring of humanity itself.” The gang’s small dramas-hitting a baseball, making friends, struggling to impress a first crush-belie profoundly moving observations about the nature of childhood itself, says Handy.īritish curator Claire Catterall, in an introduction to an exhibit about the legacy of Schulz’s characters, says the “Peanuts” gang became, for many, an important part of their daily life, a cast of friends accompanying fans on a journey of love, laughter, tears, and fears. It’s also that Charlie Brown and the rest of Schulz’s characters remain some of the most iconic in all of American culture-“right up there with the March sisters and Tom Sawyer,” according to author Bruce Handy in The Atlantic magazine. But it’s not just the local institutions that bring Sparky’s legacy alive. ![]()
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