Over 80 farms in the United States and Canada have trimmed their hedges to honor “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz and his beloved, timeless characters.
Corn Maze Farmers has teamed up with Peanuts Worldwide to create Peanuts-themed attractions, as the Associated Press noted.
Schulz released the first tape 75 years ago in October. 1950, in seven newspapers nationwide, according to the Schulz Museum, when he was just 27 years old.
Popular characters in the Peanuts brand include Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and Peppermint Patty.
Featuring “observant, wry, sarcastic, nostalgic, bitter, goofy” and other characteristics used by the Schulz Museum to describe the creation, the Peanuts comic strip was published in over 2,600 newspapers worldwide by December. 1999.
Jill Schulz, the actress and daughter of Charles M. Schulz, told the AP that seeing farmers dedicating their land to her father and his work keeps her father’s “legacy” alive.
She joked how she can’t keep houseplants alive – but respected the farmers for their hard work and dedication to their craft.
Each maze was designed specifically for each farm – anywhere from 1.5 to 20 hectares of mostly corn and sunflowers.
MAiZE Inc. the company custom created each maze.
It has done others in the past — with some dedicated to presidential candidates, Oprah Winfrey, John Wayne and others, according to the AP.
This October marks the 75th anniversary of the first screening of the “Peanuts” strip – a moment that puts a bend in Schulz’s storied career.
The Schulz Museum noted that although full-page comics were more common in the 1920s and 1930s, newspapers in the 1940s and 1950s were promoting minimalism—which led Schulz to change his practice.
Newspaper editors in the late 1940s and 1950s, however, promoted a minimalist postwar model, prompting their cartoonists to reduce strip size, minimize pen strokes, and sharpen their humor with daily quips and cerebral humor. for an increasingly educated audience,” the Schulz Museum states on the organization’s website.
Since then, the “Peanuts” phenomenon has expanded beyond newspapers to include books, animated television specials, theme parks and a Broadway musical.
Schulz received many honors during his career, including Emmy Awards for his animated television specials.
He was recognized by the U.S. government, named NASA spacecraft after his characters and even inspired a concert performance at Carnegie Hall, the museum’s website notes.
Schulz retired just a month before he died in February 2000 in Santa Rosa, California.
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