And in comics, “he was a real game-changer. “He was a very fair-minded person when it came to women having equal pay for sports and equal access,” Braddock says. He served on the board of directors of King’s Women’s Sports Foundation and incorporated a multi-day Peanuts storyline in 1979 about Title IX, which prevented gender discrimination in schools. Peppermint Patty was always the best athlete of the Peanuts strip, and once answered a teacher’s question by saying the four seasons of the year are “baseball, football, basketball and hockey.” Through the character, Schulz sparked an important dialogue about women in sports and gender equality on the field. “But certainly his friendship with her informed a lot of the sports stuff that Peppermint Patty was into and her tenacity about doing well in sports.” “I don’t think Peppermint Patty was directly inspired initially by Billie Jean King,” Braddock says. But the documentary also reveals how the character was modelled after trailblazing tennis champ Billie Jean King, whom Schulz greatly admired and befriended in the early ‘70s. Schulz, who died in 2000 at age 77, named Peppermint Patty after the candy bar and his cousin, Patricia Swanson. That was very groundbreaking and opened the door for other (comics) creators to do more unique female characters.” “So along comes this young female character who’s kind of a tomboy and charting her own path. “If you think about how female cartoon characters were portrayed on the comics page when Peppermint Patty came on the scene, they were usually the foils for their husbands, like Blondie or Beetle Bailey,” says cartoonist Paige Braddock, who serves as chief creative officer at Charles M. The origins of Peppermint Patty - and the rest of the Peanuts gang - are explored in a new Apple TV+ documentary, Who Are You, Charlie Brown? (now streaming). Schulz’s Peanuts comics in August 1966, she was an anomaly: She came from a single-parent home, was bad at school, good at sports and didn’t wear dresses. When the fiercely outspoken and athletic young girl was introduced in Charles M. There’s never been a character quite like Peppermint Patty. This article was published (710 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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