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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 30/09/2026

And don't think Schulz only struggled with getting his last name right in print ----

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 30/09/2026

Ah, yes, the Charles Schulz Clause.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 29/09/2026

Filed: Things I've Seen Too Late Vintage Velvet Oil Painting Snoopy in Car 1970s Wooden Frame 15.25”x18.25” | eBay www.ebay.com/itm/26779449...

A black velvet painting of an off-model Snoopy driving what is probably meant to be a bumper car.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 28/09/2026

These late Rerun strips from the 1990s are so great. This one made me laugh. ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 10/13/1998

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 26/09/2026

Anybody know the Perry Rhodan series? A bunch available at my donut shop this morning

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 25/09/2026

A drawing by Fellini after meeting Charles Schulz, featuring Snoopy hamming it up, Fellini behind the camera, and Schulz laughing. Exhibited at the Schulz Museum in the exhibition "Spark of Schulz" in 2022.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 25/09/2026

Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, original publication date: 5/23/1967

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 25/09/2026

"The ride was long and hard ..." 📖Treasure Chest of Fun & Fact, Vol. 22, No. 6, November 17, 1966 ✒️Lloyd Ostendorf

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 21/09/2026

A weird Olive Oyl for @weirdpopeyes.bsky.social Vintage cast iron coin bank: hibid.com/lot/31584581...

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 17/09/2026

PLEASE take a little break and practice drawing Snoopy! PLEASE! We don't need more of this. Carlitos y los Cebollitas issue #2, 1971

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 12/09/2026

My personal favorite coffee-themed Peanuts strip, originally published 1/24/1973. I'm the one who makes the coffee at home and frequently tell my wife, when she asks if it's fresh, "Freshly fried, just for you." She has no idea what I'm talking about.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 11/09/2026

Already sold at the big furniture thrift store in town. Bally Beach Club. Looked to be in great shape!

Vintage Bally Beach club pinball machine spotted in a thrift store. Already sold.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 08/09/2026

Happy Star Trek Day, Snoopy and all fellow Trekkies! ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 2/7/1972

Snoopy in a comic strip from 1972, flies the star ship Enterprise atop his doghouse. Linus had been wondering if he got bored sitting up there all day. Snoopy says, no. "Who could get bored fling the star ship Enterprise?" striking a pose like Capt. Kirk in his command chair.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 02/09/2026

Saving for when my kid asks why I won't take a Waymo when we're in the city: bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-lot...

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 02/09/2026

The early stuff, sometimes. The Kodak campaign of the late 1950s. The Ford print ads, ca. 1960. Hallmark, ca. 1960. But later, no. This poster, I think they reused a pose for Snoopy from a strip published on 9/18/1982.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 02/09/2026

What a wonderful-looking interpretation of Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley. I'm not super into toys, but this is great. I'd definitely want it in an exhibition if I were lucky enough to do one on this early comic. cdn.hibid.com/img.axd?id=8...

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 31/08/2026

Snoopy's been there. ✒️Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, originally published July 1, 1973

In a Sunday comic strip, Snoopy becomes increasingly frustrated while playing tennis, eventually destroying his tennis racquet.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 29/08/2026

I just liked this. #lookingforsomethingelse 📰 Milwaukee Journal, 1912 (Oops! I didn't get the citation, sorry)

Antarctic photographer/ explorer drawn for newspapers in 1912. In a line drawing with excellent crosshatch shading, a white man is bundled in heavy fur and skin coats, pants, and boots, operating a large box camera mounted on a tripod.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 26/08/2026

This drawing cracked me up. 💃 ✒️Ralph Barton(?), Cartoons Magazine, October 1917.

Cartoon in a faux Greek vase style of art of a swoopy woman with her arms raised and posed mid-dance. The caption below says, "She climbed out of her couch and practiced a few paces across the floor." As best I can make out, the signature says Ralph Barton. Compared to other cartoons by Barton, this attribution seems reasonable, though someone may have a better ID.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 23/08/2026

Linus graffiti in front of the robot sushi joint in Santa Rosa tonight. (This is not a real quote from Peanuts)

A spray painted stencil of Linus from the Pranuts comic strip shouting, “If it can be destroyed by the truth it deserves to be destroyed by it.”

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 22/08/2026

How about some Jack Kirby creature concept pencils of a crustacean sea monster for Thundarr? I like the boat, too. www.comiclink.com/img/comics/s...

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 21/08/2026

What do you think about Jack Kirby's six-legged goat? I think it's funny when he draws animals. I don't know why. www.comiclink.com/img/comics/s...

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 21/08/2026

When someone can *really* draw a car, the original art always stops me cold. Just incredible. Being a Talbot Lago doesn't hurt either. www.comiclink.com/img/comics/s...

Two page spread from Green Hornet Year One with art by Aaron Campbell. Characters stand around a Talbot Lago, which is featured prominently.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 19/08/2026

New to me: Toy Blondie doll stroller. I'm guessing it's a tin litho passenger compartment with painted metal hardware. Probably rubber-rimmed tires. Quite a thing! Chic Young's Blondie was *huge*, kicking off licensing merch and movies alike.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 19/08/2026

Anyone else wanna see a Jack Kirby murder robot? www.comiclink.com/img/comics/s...

Pencils from Thundarr Battle of the Barbarians. "One of Kublai's robot warriors" by Jack Kirby.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 19/08/2026

I've never seen this before. Original art for Harvey Kurtzman's comic strip Silver Linings, this one from 6/13/1948. Image Viewer www.comiclink.com/auctions/ima...

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 18/08/2026

LOL --- How about Jack Kirby pencils for a Tiger Mutant on a playground slide for Thundarr The Barbarian? He's going to whack his head after that first full turn, so he'd better lie down for this one. www.comiclink.com/img/comics/s...

A tiger man holding maybe a weapon or a telescope maybe and some futuristic space armor, maybe, stands at the top of a playground slide that makes a single spiral on the way down. He's comically large standing at the top of the slide. There is a large tree in the background and either some kind of metal framework wreckage or a very futuristic monkey bars. Caption at the top reads, "Ancient playground" and at the bottom "Den of Sleeping Demons"

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 08/08/2026

An addition to my personal collection. Original strip art -- Gene Hazelton, Flintstones, original daily newspaper comic strip published 4/19/1969. Incredible use of duo-shade paper. The inked blacks are mind-blowing. I like the Fred portrait middle. Fred Flintstone and Pebbles and the pot o' gold

Flintstones newspaper comic strip original art by Gene Hazelton. Pebbles is pointing excitedly out a window. Fred, standing by a different window, looks out and sees a rainbow and says, "Funny how kids can get so excited over such a simple thing as a rainbow!" But we see that below Pebbles's window, where the rainbow ends, is a big pot of gold.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 07/08/2026

Alphonse and Gaston are not my favorite parts of the Opperverse but for $2 I couldn’t leave this pre-1907 post card behind.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 06/08/2026

No cover variants, except Sleepy-time bear covers.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 05/08/2026

Amazing ✏️ "Sand Shark" by Jack Kirby www.comiclink.com/img/comics/s...

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 02/08/2026

The greatest treasure I found in the $1 bins today? Probably.

The cover of a 1950s comic from the lumber industry called Miracle In Wood: The Story of Plywood

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 31/07/2026

What did you see today? I saw page 19 of the New York Evening World published on 12/19/1922.

Old microfilm scan from a 1920s newspaper header that says What Did You See Today? with an image of eyes looking to the right.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 31/07/2026

My office is this color and I wore my matching shirt today. If you zoom call me today I am this poster.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 29/07/2026

Gail! That’s almost three years ago! Here’s today’s version. Yes, the Linus exhibition catalog from our exhibition currently on view in Tokyo is fuzzy.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 29/07/2026

Some great comics on the newsstand. The baseball cards are 1976 Topps 3-packs. digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b56e9c...

An NYC newsstand circa 1976. An older person and a young boy are buying something; their backs are turned to the photographer.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 27/07/2026

Jumbo, Large, Small, and Cartoon??

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 23/07/2026

Picky Paul -- LOLLL this cracked me up. Ovaltine ad 📰Waterloo [Iowa] Daily Courier, Wednesday, September 26, 1934. Page 7

In a newspaper comic strip style, "Picky" Paul, a boy looks across the header image to his mother with anger and disgust, both hands up in a defensive posture. The tagline "He just nibbled at his food" appears near his mother, who looks concerned and holds up a plate of nutritious food.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 23/07/2026

For @weirdpopeyes.bsky.social 📰The [Muncie, Indiana] Star Press Sunday, November 24, 1957 • Page 2

Old newspaper clipping featuring a photo of the head of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade giant balloon Popeye in place of a human man's head. The caption provided in the newspaper notes that the man is Frank Myers, aviation rigger supervisor. Overall, the Popeye giant balloon is listed as 56 feet high and 32 feet wide.

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Benjamin L. Clark @benjaminlclark.com · 22/07/2026

This is a very advanced laugh maneuver. ✒️Eb and Flo by Paul Sellers, 3/3/1967, detail

Newspaper comic strip character Eb of Eb and Flo is laughing so hard he's sort of doing a backflip or floppy somersault.

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