Who can forget Snoopy’s exuberant suppertime dance, his feel-good-all-over happy dance, his riotous appearance as Peppermint Patty’s date at the “turn-about” dance, or his sublime partnering of a gracefully falling leaf? Long before television’s Dancing with the Stars took the nation by storm, Schulz recognized the nearly universal appeal of dance. Almost every character in Peanuts from Charlie Brown to Woodstock has been known to kick up his heels to express their joie de vivre. Vicariously experience the joys and mishaps of dance in this exhibition featuring 70 original strips.

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While newspaper publishers and editors saw comic strips as a way to attract readers to their papers and away from competitors, comic strips in general and the Sunday funnies in particular reflected and shaped the culture around them. This exhibition includes archival newspaper tear sheets spanning the past one hundred years; a description of how the Sunday funnies were colored; and an interactive section with puzzle, cut–out, and coloring activities.

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A reader could get positively hungry reading Peanuts! Pizza, hotdogs, angel food cake, “sour” marshmallow (and lemonade!), doughnuts, and bread and butter sandwiches have all been subjects of the strip. Schulz even vented his intense dislike for coconut on several hilarious occasions. The exhibition includes 20 Peanuts strips, Peanuts cookbooks and other ephemera, and Schulz’s World War II-era drawings featuring him and his buddies “chowing down.”

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