An example of a strip Plastino created
A second. Did they all end in violent punchlines?
And short storyline with Lucy.
Al Plastino is a comic book artist possibly best known for his work on Superman. Sometimes between 1975 and 1976, during contract negotiations with Charles M. Schulz's syndicate United Media, the company hired Plastino to create Peanuts strips in case they could not come to terms. During this time, president Bill Payette left and was replaced by Robert Roy Metz, who managed to find a mutually-agreeable contract.
Schulz worked like most comic strip artists with several days or weeks of comic finishes ahead of time, so even if he refused to work, the syndicate could run dozens of original Schulz material without having to resort to a fill-in artist.
External links[]
- Alter Ego #59, featuring the comics and a retrospective of Plastino's career
- A Peanuts Oddity on Hooded Utilitarian
- Plastino's site, which erroneously claims that he drew approximately 18 months of replacement strips when Schulz underwent heart surgery around 1983. This is evidently an honest mistake in memory that he made several times.