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Peanuts Paint By Numbers Full-color Sunday comics have been a long tradition in newspapers. Sundays were reserved for big, multi-panel comic strips printed in bright colors and featured in their own section known as the Sunday Funnies. Though Charles M. Schulz always drew his comics in black and white, he did have a hand in choosing the colors for his Sunday strips.

Schulz sent his completed black-and-white Sunday strips to a local printing company to have a negative made. From the negative, a reproduction of the strip was made in a smaller size than the original. Schulz would hand-color this copy and have his secretary number the colors using a color chart, as shown in the example below. The newspaper syndicates used this numbering system to identify the correct color dye for the printing plates for the Sunday Funnies. Eventually, Schulz’s secretary took over the entire coloring and numbering process under his supervision.

Top: an original color-coded Sunday reproduction from the Schulz Museum’s collection. Right: the full-color Sunday strip ﬁ rst published on June 13, 1965. Left: An example of a newspaper color chart. 1 Now it’s your turn! Look at the black-and-white Sunday comic strip below and use the numbers on the corresponding color chart to determine the correct color for each item. Color the comic strip and share it with us online @schulzmuseum or #schulzmuseum. This strip was first published on October 28, 1973.

C6 C1 C13

C13 C1 C3 C3 C11 C6 C4 C1 C12 C8 C3 C3 C2 C1 C3 C6 C10 C3 C13 C8 C13 C10 C11 C9 C9

C4 C3 C12 C6 C6

C1 C1 C13 C8

C3 C5 C3 C12 C8 C3 C9 C1 C9 C9 C12 C13 2 © Peanuts Worldwide LLC Color the strip! Ready to practice again? Just like on the page before, use the numbers on the color chart to color the Peanuts Sunday strip below. Share it with us online @schulzmuseum or #schulzmuseum. This strip was first published on May 18, 1975.

C3 C1

C8 C8 C8 C12 C8 C13 C12 C12 C1

C3 C1 C10 C5 C6 C8 C8 C10 C8

C4 C13 C6 C6 C8 C6 C1 C1 C1 C13 C1 C1 C13 C3 C8 C1

C10 C8 C10 C10 C11 C11 C8 C11 C4 C13 C13 C6

C1 C6 C13 C8

C2 C13 C12 C5 C11

C3 C5 C8 C12 C3 C8 C3 C3 C8 C12 C8 C8 C1 C12 C1 C11 C8 C1 C8