Peanuts Celebrates 50 Years with NASA

Celebrate 50 years of the space program with NASA in 2008-09! Snoopy will be on hand at NASA’s Gala event celebrating 50 years in space. The event will take place on September 24th at the National Air & Space Museum. Snoopy will also be on hand at several events (dates yet to be determined) including:
● Folk Light Festival in Washington D.C. (sponsored by the Smithsonian)
● Launch Events at Kennedy Space Center

The Schulz Museum will be joining the celebrations with our own exhibition,
To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA (January 31 to July 6, 2009).

It's the Great eBay Fashion Auction, Charlie Brown

A sexy Isaac Mizrahi dress featuring Charlie Brown’s signature zig-zag, a bright yellow-feathered Woodstock cocktail dress by Project Runway’s Laura Bennett, a bedazzled Sally frock designed by Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth—these and dozens of other Peanuts-inspired designs by the leading names in fashion will be auctioned off on eBay through the end of October, with 100% of the proceeds being donated to Dress for Success.

The designs were unveiled at MetLife Snoopy in Fashion, the first-ever Peanuts runway show, held September 7 in New York’s Bryant Park during the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.  The witty and elegant couture fashions also include outfits by such pre-eminent designers as Betsey Johnson, Liz Claiborne, Pamella Roland, Heatherette, actress-comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, and The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Charles Schulz Elected Posthumously to
U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame

The World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame has posthumously inducted Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz to the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame.  Schulz was inducted on January 26, 2007, during the pairs finals of the 2007 U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Spokane, Washington. Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton presented the medal, and Schulz's wife, Jean, accepted the award on behalf of her late husband.

Schulz was a well-known fan of both ice hockey and figure skating. During the 50-year span of Peanuts he created at least 70 strips about figure skating, including one month-long series in which Peppermint Patty prepares for a figure skating competition with her coach, Snoopy.

An ice arena in Schulz's birthplace, St. Paul, Minnesota, is named the Charles M. Schulz-Highland Arena Complex. In 1969, Schulz built the Redwood Empire Ice Arena, also known as Snoopy's Home Ice, in his later home of Santa Rosa, California.

The U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame is at the World Figure Skating Museum in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Hall of Fame has about 90 members; Schulz is this year's only inductee.

Security Blankets is Looking for Your Stories!

Don Fraser (a former Peanuts licensee, co-founder of Aviva Enterprises, and founder of Inetics, Inc.), and Derrick Bang (author of 50 Years of Happiness: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz and Charles M. Schulz: Li’l Beginnings), have embarked on a new project…and they need your help.

Security Blankets: How Charles M. Schulz Touched Our Lives (a working title), to be published by Andrews & McMeel, will be a collection of heartwarming, poignant, uplifting, and celebratory tales of how Schulz and his Peanuts characters have made an impact on us all.