Originally titled Li’l Folks, Charles “Sparky” Schultz’s classic newspaper comic strip Peanuts became a huge sensation, boosted by TV holiday specials like A Charlie Brown Christmas, which forever tied them to the season thanks to Linus’ reading from Luke 2:8-14. In honor, the BBC put out an article honoring Schultz and his famous characters.
However, I’m posting this mere days before Christmas, so here’s a bonus article from The Conversation about how the special was made. I guess being almost last minute actually benefited it, as that animation style would go on to be how the Peanuts have been depicted even when they made the jump to 3D CG.
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