Young Pillars is a single-panel gag strip written and drawn by Charles M. Schulz (best known for Peanuts) from 1956 to 1965 for the Youth Magazine published by the Church of God.
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Unlike Peanuts, the comic featured teenagers, and most were religiously themed. The main character was named Harold.
The strips were frequently rerun, sometimes with edited captions.[1]
Schulz made five additional similar gag panels, which ran (with one rerun from Youth) in the magazine Reach, another Church of God publication, in 1969.
Young Pillars was published in a three-volume collection in the early 1960s, and marketed as showing Charlie Brown and his friends as teenagers, although none of the characters shared the same names.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Charles M. Schulz: the Warner Press work" by Nat Gertler, Schulz's Youth, ISBN 978-0-9753958-9-9
- ^ Booker, M. Keith (28 October 2014). Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [4 volumes]: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas. ABC-CLIO. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-313-39751-6. Retrieved 1 July 2021.