A New Year Begins, an Era Ends
Posted: Mon 3 Jan 2000 06:56
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There aren’t many comic strips left that were already established by the time I was able to read them. Besides Peanuts, there were Dennis the Menace, Nancy, Dick Tracy, Blondie, Beetle Bailey, Prince Valiant, perhaps a few others. Most of the long-lasting strips still in production are now written and drawn by a new generation of artists. That’s not in the cards for Peanuts, which appears for the last time today. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz has long since vowed that no one else would ever draw Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy, and the rest of the gang—so when his health …
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