More than 80 farms across the United States and Canada have trimmed their hedges to honor “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz and his timeless, beloved characters.
As the Associated Press noted, corn maze farmers have teamed up with Peanuts Worldwide to create Peanuts-themed attractions.
According to the Schulz Museum, Schulz published his first comic strip 75 years ago in October 1950 in seven newspapers across the country, when he was just 27 years old.
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Popular characters from the Peanuts brand include Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and Peppermint Patty.
With the words “observant, ironic, sarcastic, nostalgic, bittersweet, silly” and other characteristics that the Schulz Museum uses to describe its creation, the “Peanuts” comic strip was reprinted in over 2,600 newspapers worldwide by December 1999.
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Jill Schulz, actress and daughter of Charles M. Shulz, told AP that her father’s “legacy” stays alive when she sees farmers dedicating their land to her father and his life’s work.
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She joked that she couldn’t keep houseplants alive – but paid tribute to the farmers for their hard work and dedication to their craft.
Each maze was designed specifically for its farm – between 1.5 and 20 acres, mostly corn and sunflowers.
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The company MAiZE Inc. created each labyrinth individually.
This has been the case with others in the past, too – some were dedicated to presidential candidates Oprah Winfrey, John Wayne and others, AP reported.
This October marks the 75th anniversary of Schulz’s first appearance in the “Peanuts” strip – a moment that crowns his celebrated career.
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The Schulz Museum noted that while full-page comics were more common in the 1920s and 1930s, newspapers in the 1940s and 1950s promoted minimalism, prompting Schulz to change his approach.
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“Newspaper editors in the late ’40s and ’50s, however, promoted a minimalist postwar model, urging their cartoonists to reduce the size of comic strips, keep pen strokes to a minimum, and sharpen their humor with daily gags and intellectual humor for an increasingly educated audience,” says the Schulz Museum website.
Since then, the “Peanuts” phenomenon has expanded beyond newspapers to include books, animated television specials, theme parks and a Broadway musical.
Schulz has received numerous awards throughout his career, including Emmy Awards for his animated TV specials.
He has been recognized by the U.S. government, NASA spacecraft have been named after his characters, and he even inspired a concert performance at Carnegie Hall, according to the museum’s website.
Schulz retired just one month before his death in February 2000 in Santa Rosa, California.
The Associated Press and Erica Lamberg contributed reporting.
Source of the original article: To celebrate the 75th anniversary, farmers across the country are carving cartoon characters from the Peanuts world into corn mazes
