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Franklin: The Legacy of Peanuts’ First Black Character

I very much enjoyed the Minnesota Historical Society’s in-depth panel discussion of the legacy of Peanuts’ Franklin, featuring Robb Armstrong, the creator of the long-running Jump Start comic strip, one of the screenplay writers for the aforelinked Welcome Home, Franklin, and the person whose surname Charles Schulz chose for Franklin. Armstrong’s a great storyteller, and his own history of becoming a cartoonist and his relationship with Schulz is deeply moving.

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