Peanuts for Lunch

October 31st, 2009 COMICS Ryan Brlecic

by Charles M. Schulz

The Great Pumpkin is an unseen character in the comic strip Peanuts.

The Great Pumpkin is a holiday figure (comparable to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny) that seems to exist only in the imagination of Linus van Pelt. Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. Invariably, the Great Pumpkin fails to appear, and a humiliated but undefeated Linus vows to wait for him again the following Halloween.

This premise was reworked by Schulz many times throughout the run of the Peanuts strip, and also forms the basis for the 1966 animated television special It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The best-known quote regarding Linus and the Great Pumpkin, originally from the comic strip but made famous by the TV special, is “There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.”

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Ryan Brlecic

Ryan Brlecic is a freelance illustrator/ graphic designer based in Cleveland, OH. He is responsible for visuals / content on The Red Circle. His formative years included ironman stretches of comic book reading and movie watching. His current years include attempting to engage in ironman stretches of movies, comics, and illustrations. This is normally thwarted by the raising of his arch-nemesis-in-training daughter. Along with his freelance work and The Red Circle, he is also creating DISENFRANCHISED, his first comic series.

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