(St. Paul, MN) A new exhibit at the Minnesota History Center showcases the personal history and talent of artist Charles Schulz. Museum manager Annie Johnson says it includes his
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The curators say the strips, three of which were acquired from a private collector last year and will be on show for the first time, are âa rare opportunity to see characters differing from the beloved Peanuts Gangâ.
But some similarities are clear. Irascible, overbearing and loud, the storeroom manager Ms Hamhock could easily be Charlie Brownâs nemesis, Lucy van Pelt, grown up.
And it is not difficult to see Elmer Hagemayer, a meek and compliant worker whose cheerfulness and optimism provides the blunting edge to Ms Hamhockâs gruffness, as a grown-up Charlie Brown.
Attitudes and circumstances of the era are reflected in some of the strips. In one panel, Elmer Hagemayer tells a colleague: âI just canât get used to having a woman for a boss.â In another, Hagemayer mistakenly uses Ms Hamhockâs prized ground coffee, a luxury in the postwar era, as a fragrant compound for sweeping the floor.
Three ‘lost’ Charles Schulz strips have been unearthed
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Peanuts characters - if Charlie Brown and the gang had ever grown up.
These rare curiosities intrigue and baffle even the experts. “They’re a puzzle to me,” says Jean Schulz, wife of the late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, who drew them.
They are the seven black-and-white works of comic art from the mid-1950s collectively called the “Hagemeyer” strips. Four of them have appeared in books. The three other “lost” strips were found and purchased at auction in May 2020 - but have never been widely published, according to the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Centre.