Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang made their television debut 55 years ago in A Charlie Brown Christmas. (Photo: United Features ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Linus Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend and colleague Charles M. Schulz borrowed his first name for Charlie Brown’s blanket-wielding best friend Linus in his ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- St. Paul's fourth summer-long tribute honoring cartoonist Charles Schulz will feature statues of Linus -- including one painted by the man Schulz named the character after. Linus ...

Linus pats birds on the head; Linus and Lucy need a measles shot; Lucy does not like Linus's letter to Santa; Lucy wants Linus to break his blanket habit. Snoopy does not want to wait until Christmas ...

Charlie Brown has become an icon for the downtrodden. Peanuts, created by Charles M. Schulz, pits Charlie Brown as the protagonist of a newspaper comic strip that chronicles the lives of young Charlie ...

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Linus Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend and colleague Charles M. Schulz borrowed his first name for Charlie Brown’s blanket-wielding best friend Linus in his “Peanuts” comic strip ...