How are new Peanuts specials possible?

dwmitch · 12-02-2011, 12:52 AM

This has been on my mind for the past week. Thanksgiving night a brand new Peanuts special aired (Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown). I thought it was like He's a Bully, Charlie Brown where Schultz was working on it when he passed away and someone else finished it.

Then my brother told me that it was completely new and the guy behind it was the author of Pearls Before Swine.

Only one problem, though. When Charles Schultz announced his retirement he specifically said he didn't want anyone else to continue the Peanuts gang. So how did Stephen Pastis get the rights to make a new Peanuts special?

I mean I'm not complaining. The way he handled it I wouldn't mind seeing more Peanuts specials from him. He stuck to the comics, even finding a way to work the very first comic strip featuring Charlie Brown ever published into it, but given Schultz's statement I'm having a hard time figuring out how his estate was able to give Pastis permission for it.

12-02-2011, 12:52 AM	#1
dwmitch Persona Non Grata Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Never figured out where I am, but there are more cows than people here. Posts: 16	How are new Peanuts specials possible? This has been on my mind for the past week. Thanksgiving night a brand new Peanuts special aired (Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown). I thought it was like He's a Bully, Charlie Brown where Schultz was working on it when he passed away and someone else finished it. Then my brother told me that it was completely new and the guy behind it was the author of Pearls Before Swine. Only one problem, though. When Charles Schultz announced his retirement he specifically said he didn't want anyone else to continue the Peanuts gang. So how did Stephen Pastis get the rights to make a new Peanuts special? I mean I'm not complaining. The way he handled it I wouldn't mind seeing more Peanuts specials from him. He stuck to the comics, even finding a way to work the very first comic strip featuring Charlie Brown ever published into it, but given Schultz's statement I'm having a hard time figuring out how his estate was able to give Pastis permission for it.