Good Grief, Charlie Brown! will be a ‘cultural celebration’ of brand and its legacy.
A new exhibition celebrating Snoopy, Charlie Brown and co is coming to London’s Somerset House later this year.
Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Celebrating Peanuts and its Cultural Legacy will run from October 25, 2018 to March 3, 2019.
The landmark exhibition at the Embankment Galleries will showcase the original drawings of the cartoon’s creator, Charles m Schulz, alongside works inspired by Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts gang from some of today’s most exciting designers and artists.
Somerset House has partnered with the Charles M Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa to bring over 100 comic strips and personal artefacts from the Schulz Museum to the UK.
Contemporary works will be shown from contributors including Andy Holden, Fiona Banner, Lucas Price and Mark Drew among others.
Peanuts is widely acknowledged as one of the most popular and influential comic strips of all time.
From 1950 to 2000, creator Charles M Schulz produced 17,897 Peanuts comic strips, syndicated to over 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries and translated into 21 languages, totaling a readership of 355 million people.
A special pop up shop will also be opened as part of the exhibition, offering a range of unique products relating to Peanuts.
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