Much of what readers interpret from cartoon art is non–verbal: they take their cues from visual iconography, a language they have learned but may not realize they know. For example, what has happened to a character with stars for eyes and how do we know that?

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Peanuts Lives: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz

August 18, 2007 through January 28, 2008
What better way to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center than an exhibition examining the enduring influence of Schulz and his Peanuts characters on cartooning and popular culture?

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October 6 through November 9, 2007
Good grief turns into great fashion relief in the Schulz Museum's exclusive viewing of Peanuts-inspired fashions, sponsored by MetLife, straight from the runway of New York City’s September fashion week.

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March 17-18, 2007
View images of the creation of our new Peanuts wall mural in the Great Hall! Local artist Darrell Burson painted the mural in March while the Museum was open so visitors could watch his progress.

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Magic on Ice: A Retrospective of REIA Ice Shows

November 4, 2006 through February 26 , 2007
Magic on Ice examines the eighteen-year history (1986–2003) of Christmas ice shows that were held each December at the Redwood Empire Ice Arena in Santa Rosa, California.  Charles Schulz took great personal pride and joy in these ice shows, and he enjoyed creating them for his local community.

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Woodstock: Small is Beautiful

June 3 through October 30 , 2007
Woodstock: Small is Beautiful contains original Peanuts comic strips, artifacts, and photographs. The strips reveal Woodstock’s personality, his relationship with Snoopy, and the many non-birdlike roles he assumed over the years, and the Woodstock-themed products display character's popularity over four decades.

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Sugar and Spice: Little Girls in the Funnies

February 4 through May 29 , 2006
Sugar and Spice samples one hundred years of little girls in the comics by exploring the evolution of strips featuring little girls and the influence of Peanuts on modern-day characters.

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Common Threads: Peanuts in Stitches

October 1, 2005 through January 30, 2006
Creativity in cloth is what you'll see in when you step into the Museum's downstairs Changing Gallery. Common Threads: Peanuts in Stitches features twenty-two hand-made quilts by Japanese fabric artists who have found inspiration in Charles Schulz's famous strip.

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Top Dogs: Comic Canines Before and After Snoopy

April 23 through September 26, 2005
This rare and unique display featured approximately fifty cartoons, including classic comic strips such as Krazy Kat, Buster Brown, The Yellow Kid, Tippie, Blondie, Napoleon, Little Orphan Annie and Pogo, as well as current features like Mutts, Pickles, Luann, The Far Side, Dilbert, Red & Rover, Mother Goose & Grimm, Duncan, For Better or For Worse, Rhymes with Orange, and Marmaduke.

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Peanuts—Found in Translation

November 12, 2004 through April 11, 2005
Peanuts—Found in Translation featured more than forty of Yoshi's ink paintings on handmade washi paper that incorporated the Peanuts Gang and Japanese characters in compositions that might be characterized as visual onomatopoeia.

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MAD About Peanuts

March 19 through September 27, 2004
MAD About Peanuts exhibited nearly fifty years of parodies of the Peanuts strip and characters with rarely seen original art by masters from the Usual Gang of Idiots, including Sergio Aragones and Mort Drucker.

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Tom Everhart: Under the Influence

November 15, 2003 through March 15, 2004
The Schulz Museum's first exhibition of non-cartoon art celebrated the paintings by artist and Schulz's good friend, Tom Everhart. Many people have seen his paintings in other museums and galleries, but it is unique to see them in conjunction with the art that inspired them.

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From Elzie C. Segar to Frank Wing: A Legacy Continued

August 16 to November 9, 2003
This exhibition took a look at some of the cartoonists who inspired Schulz from his childhood through his professional career. Beginning with the earliest influence—Billy DeBeck, whose character Spark Plug in the Barney Google strip was the source of Schulz’s early nickname of Sparky—many of the giants in cartoon history were represented in the exhibit.

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Tribute to Sparky

August 17, 2002 through August 10, 2003
For our first exhibition in the Downstairs Changing Gallery, it seemed like an obvious choice to draw from our permanent collection of nearly 200 original cartoon tributes to Charles M. Schulz. Artists represented in Tribute to Sparky: Cartoon Artists Honor Charles M. Schulz included Scott Adams, Paige Braddock, Jim Davis, Greg Evans, Cathy Guisewite, Johnny Hart, Michael Jantze, Lynn Johnston, Bil Keane, Stan Lee, Patrick McDonnell, Bill Melendez, Pat Oliphant, Mike Peters, Art Spiegelman, Jeff Stahler, Morrie Turner, and many, many more.

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