*Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria I was an avid fan and reader of Marvel and DC Comics superheroes such as Conan the Barbarian, Black Panther, Mighty Thor, Luke Cage, Spiderman and Superman to mention a few.
I still am. My childhood cartoon strip though was PEANUTS (Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, and all. Created by Charles M. Schulz PEANUTS also featured the Black Character FRANKLIN making his first appearance in the daily Cartoon strip in 1968.
As a fan, I was elated to have visited the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, a museum dedicated to the works of Charles M. Schulz himself in Santa Rosa, California whilst attending the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards weekend, some years back.
Charles Schulz would have been 100 years old on November 26.
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TAYO Fatunla is an award-winning Nigerian Comic Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Writer and Illustrator is an artist of African diaspora. He is a graduate of the prestigious Kubert School, in New Jersey, US. and recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and series – Famous people in Black History – He participated at UNESCO’s Cartooning In Africa forum held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Cartooning Global Forum in Paris, France and has held a virtual OUR ROOTS cartoon workshop for SMITHSONIAN- National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C. His Fela Kuti outline image is featured in the Burna Boy’s mega-Afrobeat hit song “Ye”. –– [email protected]
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