Museum exhibits honor ‘Peanuts’ creator Charles M. Schulz on 100th birthday

Lucy Shelton Caswell, founding curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library Museum, examines exhibit memorabilia tied to the comic strip “Peanuts” in the Columbus, Ohio, museum. The exhibit is one of a series of exhibits this year commemorating the centenary of the birth of “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz. (AP)

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a series of “Peanuts” comic strips that ran in mid-April of 1956, Charlie Brown grasps the string of his kite, which was stuck in what came to be known in the long-running strip as the “kite-eating tree.”

In one episode that week, a frustrated Charlie Brown declines an offer from nemesis Lucy for her to yell at the tree.