The books we keep recommending now have a home on our website. You can find it under Obscurities & Extras on unpackingpeanuts.com. It’s just getting started and will grow. #Peanuts #CharlieBrown #Cartooning #ComicStrips #BookRecommendations

In our latest episode: Pumpkin Spice Peanuts 2 - Thank You for the Dance, we close out our look at autumn in Peanuts with a look at more leaves, great pumpkins, and the epic finale of a forty-year running gag. pod.link/unpackingpea... #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

The morning after Halloween, and Sally is not happy. She sat up all night waiting for the Great Pumpkin and missed trick-or-treating. We cover the Nov 1, 1962 strip in our Great Pumpkin episode from the archive. unpackingpeanuts.com/greatpumpkin #Peanuts #GreatPumpkin

Happy Halloween! From the archive: Charlie Brown tells Linus the Great Pumpkin doesn't exist, and Linus fires back with Santa Claus. We talk about the Oct 28, 1963 strip, and whether Linus can get away with believing in both. unpackingpeanuts.com/greatpumpkin #Peanuts #GreatPumpkin #Halloween

65 years ago today, Linus picked out the most sincere pumpkin patch he could find and settled in to wait for the Great Pumpkin. We dig into the Oct 30, 1961 strip and more in our episode from the archive. unpackingpeanuts.com/greatpumpkin #Peanuts #GreatPumpkin #Halloween

We love it when listeners write to us and share their appreciation for Charles Schulz. Thanks @debperry.bsky.social and Marcus Entrolezo.

Pumpkin Spice Peanuts 1 - Do Falling Leaves Make You Feel Sad? Grab your latte and get cozy as the Unpacking Peanuts gang takes a look at Autumn in Peanuts from the familiar sporting rituals, to the resigned sigh of a fallen leaf. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

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June Brigman, Patrick McDonnell – Comic Strippers Interviewed

June Brigman, Comic Artist June Brigman joins Mike Manley, Jamar Nicholas, and Steve Conley‘s Pencil to Pencil podcast this week. Brigman has been drawing Mary Worth for ten years and drew Brenda Star...

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Thanks @dailycartoonist.bsky.social for featuring Unpacking Peanuts podcast interview with @muttscomics.bsky.social creator Patrick McDonnell. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

June Brigman, Patrick McDonnell – Comic Strippers Interviewed

June Brigman, Comic Artist June Brigman joins Mike Manley, Jamar Nicholas, and Steve Conley‘s Pencil to Pencil podcast this week. Brigman has been drawing Mary Worth for ten years and drew Brenda Star...

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World-renowned creator of Mutts, Patrick McDonnell, returns to the show to discuss the subtleties and eccentricities of Schulz’s use of body language, gesture and acting. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

An unlikely collaboration between Charles Schulz and John Romita, source unknown. Photo taken at the Society of Illustrator’s The Art of Spider-Man exhibit

Our latest episode: Mean Girls 3 - Now 33% Meaner. The gang expands their scope, and looks at mean girls throughout the Peanuts run, including Lucy, Frieda, and Good ol’ Molly Volley. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

@unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social went today to check out this exhibit in San Jose at the MLK Jr Library and Sparky and Krazy Kat made appearances.

Mean Girls 2 - How Much is Mean and How Much is Just Life? Our exploration into the sassiest, snarkiest, twosome in all of Peanuts continues. These two may be mean, but they are also hilarious. But are they worse on their own, or together? pod.link/unpackingpeanuts #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

Mean Girls Episode 1 - Patty and Violet: Conformity Police. Michael curates a delightfully mean collection of some early Peanuts strips featuring two of Peanuts strongest (and meanest) personalities: the original Patty, and good ol’ Violet Grey. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

@nat.gertler.com writes in response to our recent tribute episode "The tribute was not organized in response to Sparky's death... rather, to Sparky's announced retirement of the strip... The target audience for it was Sparky himself, for him to see how loved he was by the cartooning community."

Unpacking Peanuts in the Wild: Harold and Jimmy at Harrisburg Comic and Pop Con + Liz and Michael at Fabcon in Fabriano, Italy.

Cartoonists’ Salute to Schulz! Just 5 short months after Charles Schulz’s passing, the top cartoonists in the field dedicated a day of their own strips to remembering Sparky. The gang looks at Peanuts tribute strips by Jim Davis, Aaron McGruder, Cathy Guisewite and more. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

We talk with Eisner-nominated cognitive scientist @neilcohn.bsky.social who looks at how our brains perceive comics. His latest book challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself. #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

In 1980 Legendary Captain Marvel artist C.C. Beck created his personal list of “The 7 Deadly Sins of Comics Creators.” In this episode the gang discuss Beck’s manifesto and see if and how it applies to Schulz's work. #comics #comicstrips pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

If our generation does its job, then by the time our kids are celebrating the 300th, they'll look back on the decades between these milestones with admiration for how America faced ferocious challenges and once more drew nearer to its highest ideals. From our family to yours, happy Fourth of July!

In our latest episode the gang celebrates the USA’s birthday by looking at one of the latest iterations of Snoopy’s alter egos…The Revolutionary War patriot. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

I had a great time today chatting with the @unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social Unpacking Peanuts Podcast about my recent book and how fundamental Peanuts has been to the science of comics cognition. I'm looking forward to the episode coming out in a few months!

Sidekicks and Second Bananas Episode 4 - Shermy: Just A Guy Standing There. The straight man of all straight men gets an episode all to himself. Will the gang finally crack the code on this beloved figure of Peanuts past? #comics #cartooning pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

New on my Doonesbury blog: A World Where Rage Was Funny and Insecurity Was Lovable: Peanuts, Doonesbury and the Long 1960s. (... includes a shout-out to the excellent @unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social podcast!) #comics #comicstrip #Doonesbury #Peanuts

A World Where Rage Was Funny and Insecurity Was Lovable: Peanuts, Doonesbury and the Long 1960s.

On 30 November 1970, five weeks into Doonesbury’s run, protests against the Vietnam war began to figure into the strip’s plot lines after “Megaphone” Mark Slackmeyer tried to occupy the offic…

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Sidekicks and Second Bananas Episode 3 - Roy: A Good Temporary Friend. Roy befriends both Charlie Brown and Linus at camp. But maybe his main raison d'être is to introduce the world to the swinging-est character ever - Peppermint Patty. #comics #cartooning pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

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Benjamin L. Clark@benjaminlclark.com · 5mo ago

Mickey Hart's wife and Jean Schulz are friends and have both worked on environmental causes in/around Sonoma County. So, Schulz *may* have been acquainted with Mickey Hart. Mickey Hart came to the Schulz Museum and gave a talk a few years ago. Poster: I imagine they asked, he said OK, and voila.

We have not talked about it. I wonder what the story is. @benjaminlclark.com can you elaborate?

Paul Hébert@paulinraincity.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Every once in a while l remember that Charles Schulz drew a poster for a Grateful Dead spinoff thing and it makes me happy. ( @unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social , have you guys ever talked about this specifically, or his charitable artistic contributions more broadly?)

Our look at Sidekicks and Second Bananas continues. Sally’s pal Eudora finally gets a turn in the spotlight, as the gang revisits her debut sequence from 1978 and finds a fun and unique character who still feels modern. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts #comics #cartooning #comicstrips

@jimmygownley.bsky.social and Michael and I had the enormous pleasure of seeing the Colbert Report live. I don't remember who the guest was but I remember The Word: Freem - Freedom without the Do.