Super Snoopy
April 18, 2012, filed under: News,Studio, by LexToday, at your local comic shop you can pick up PEANUTS #4 and read a story that was 30 years in the making!
I’m lucky enough that my day job is working at the Charles M. Schulz Studio in Santa Rosa, CA. I’m one of the editors on the new PEANUTS comic book series from Kaboom (BOOM Studios’ all-ages imprint). For issue four I also contributed a story, “The Masked Marvel.” It was adapted from one of my favorite PEANUTS storylines: Snoopy as the Masked Marvel! (pencils by Bob Scott, click to enlarge).
In 1967 Schulz wrote a storyline in which Snoopy dons a black mask and becomes the Masked Marvel in order to defeat Lucy in a neighborhood wrist-wrestling competition–it turns into a frenetic battle of wills and wrists (an animated version exists in It was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown)! Schulz followed this story up in 1968 when Snoopy headed off to Petaluma for the World Wrist Wrestling Championships (he doesn’t don the mask though). I combined the two storylines for the latest issue and the whole studio pitched in: Vicki Scott did layouts, Bob Scott on pencils, Paige Braddock on inks, and Nina Kester did terrific color work–this story was like our big summer blockbuster and I hope fans have as much fun reading it as we did putting it together!
This story is 30 years in the making because back when I was 6 years old I did my very first comic–and it featured Snoopy! As someone might say “the circle is now complete…” (click to enlarge)
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The peaunts comic is just looking really good Lex. Hats off to all you folks working on it.
Comment by Brian — April 18, 2012 @
Excellent Alexis! I hope to be a part of it soon!
Comment by Keef — April 24, 2012 @
I would’ve like to see Lucy and Snoopy been the next Bugs and Daffy imaginie what will turned out to be as the Charlie Brown gang’s own answer to Looney Tunes.
Comment by Spike — June 11, 2012 @