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Charles Schulz The Peanuts Franchise

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In 1950 Charles M. Schulz launched a simple 4-panel comic strip titled “The Peanuts”. Little did he know, he would publish nearly 18,000 strips before his death in 2000, when the series consequently ended. His comic was extended to many other forms of media to accommodate the growing market for the Peanuts. According to prominent media scholar Henry Jenkins, “Transmedia storytelling practices may expand the potential market for a property by creating different points of entry for different audience segments”. Schulz was able to create these different points of entry to his comic by selling the rights to the Peanuts franchise to several media outlets and corporations across the United States. However, as a byproduct of the expanded reach of the Peanuts, the franchise took on a more commercialized identity over time. Seeking out profits surpassed enhancing the story world as the primary goal.
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