10 Things you didn't know about the Peanuts
Peanuts week at Sugar Bay has finally arrived! Our campers are having so much fun with Snoopy and Good old Charlie Brown. Did you know that the Peanuts comic strip, although only recently turned into a movie, was in existence since 1950? There are so many things about the Peanuts you didn't know. Inspired by the Peanuts week at Sugar Bay... Here are 10 Fun Facts about The Peanuts: 1. CHARLIE BROWN WAS MODELED AFTER CHARLES SCHULZ The writer and producer of the Peanuts comic strip, Charles Schulz, designed Charlie Brown pretty much to be a replica of himself. “We always say that each of the characters represents a piece of our dad,” is what Charles’ son, Craig Schulz said in a new book ( The Art and Making of the Peanuts ) about the production of the new movie. 2. THERE ARE 17,897 STRIPS There is almost 18 000 comic strips of the Peanuts. These strips ran in newspapers between 1950 and 2000. Each strip wa...