Gene Kannenberg, Jr. is creator of the recently released “Here Comes Charlie Brown!
According to Brunetti:
People forget how revolutionary [Peanuts] was at the time.
All of Schulzs ideas, these were not guaranteed to be winner ideas…
I think everyone just accepted, Yeah, that feels right.
And you forget that at one point, that was really an experimental approach.
And a risky approach.
As Brunetti explained:
The Brando of comics.
Nobody ever asks me, What do you mean by that?
I think it actually was around the same time [as the launch of Peanuts].
It ushered in something that now, we take for granted… that just became the way it is.
Source: “Four Perfect Panels:Fans of Peanuts and Charles Schulz,” C2E2 panel.
Created by Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts is a multimedia franchise that began as a comic strip in the 1950s and eventually expanded to include films and a television series. Peanuts follows the daily adventures of the Peanuts gang, with Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy at the center of them. Aside from the film released in 2015, the franchise also has several Holiday specials that air regularly on U.S. Television during their appropriate seasons.
