Comic strip heroes make European museum debut in London
Original artwork by legendary US cartoonist Charles M. Schulz is making its European museum debut at London's Somerset House gallery in the new exhibition "Good Grief, Charlie Brown! Celebrating Snoopy and the Enduring Power of Peanuts".
Schulz, who died in 2000, drew 17,897 strips about the world of Charlie Brown, his dog Snoopy, and their friends, which were printed in more than 2,600 newspapers around the world with a readership of 355 million people.
The strips and the characters remain especially popular in China, where there are 20 Charlie Brown-themed cafes, and, earlier this year, Chinese-dressed statues of several Peanuts characters were sent from the US city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, where Schulz grew up, to Changsha in Hunan province in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the two cities forging sister-city ties.
