A good man: US exhibitions honour 'Peanuts' creator Charles M. Schulz on 100th

New exhibits on display at the Billy Ireland museum and at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California, are celebrating the upcoming centenary of the birth of 'Peanuts' cartoonist Schulz, born in Minnesota on Nov 26, 1922. Photo: Charles M. Schulz Museum

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.