Remember Winthrop? I always thought it was just a cut-rate Peanuts for newspapers that couldn't afford the more popular strip, but it had some charming eccentricities of its own, including a radical germophobe named Spotlesss McPartland - OCD before we had a name for it - and a junior "astronaut" named Foster Norman who floated 15 feet above the neighborhood via a helium balloon on a string. On November 18, 1964, Winthrop became a Beatles fan: It's perplexing to me that The Beatles never got so much as a namecheck in Peanuts. Schulz didn't exactly shy away from topicality as a hard-and-fast rule, and you'd think two of the biggest popular icons of the 60s would have collided somewhere along the way.
Yeah, it's weird that (AFAIK anyway - I haven't read every Peanuts strip ever- I guess he had 35 years in which to work in a reference!). Schulz did do a poignant strip about Bob Dylan in 1971 though.
Can't find them online, but there's a great sequence of Peanuts strips set at camp where Peppermint Patty keeps referring whimsically to her 'Mama Cass Legs'. Also, Off Topic, but can you believe Peanuts lasted long enough to reference Harry Potter? This is from November 1999, 2 months before the strip ended.
Jim Morrison created his own sexually explicit parodies of Peanut strips, some of which went up for auction recently. Appraently this is one of them (the scan is too small to read though - though maybe that's just as well)
'scuse me if it's been up before but my current fave. https://www.facebook.com/The.Origin...68442995954/10153582107215955/?type=1&theater
"Mama Cass legs" does ring a bell......but that Dylan strip floored me. I thought I'd seen them all! Yeah, the Potter strip is "get-ting very neeear the end...." (see I brought it back on topic)
Kay K goes all British Invasion on us..... 16 Magazine, June 1965: .....and tries to crash a Byrds/Grass Roots show at "The Trip"..... 16 Magazine, March 1966:
I just found this browsing around, I know absolutely nothing about it except for the Sunn O))) reference.
