Peanuts – ICECUBES the comic strip.

Russel Harvey interviews Jud Hurd – Classic Cartoon History

Posted on July 2, 2025 by Leroy Brown

Here’s a really interesting historical interview on the topic of newspaper syndicated comics from an insider’s perspective. From Peanuts to Lil’ Abner, Family Circus and Prince Valiant, this was the golden age of newspaper comics. Jud Hurd (1913 – September
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Posted on April 7, 2023 by Leroy Brown

ICECUBES TV ~ New Podcast 10/27/2016

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Leroy Brown

New ICECUBES podcast about where to get cheap art supplies! 🙂

Charles ‘Sparky’ Schulz & Russel Harvey.

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Leroy Brown

A few years back I had the pleasure of meeting Russel Harvey, scion of Harvey Comics, at MoCCA in New York City.(You can read about our encounter here.) Since then, we have managed to stay in touch digitally and Russel
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Practice with Peanuts.

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Leroy Brown

Just for fun! 🙂 Good practice. Schulz developed a fast stroke that is hard to replicate without lots of practice. For him over time, drawing Peanuts became like writing shorthand.

Color matters! Peanuts vs. McDonalds.

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Leroy Brown

It used to be that comics had really great colors. Big primary colors printed with halftone dots. A lot of the times the color dots were off register and would bleed outside the lines. That was so cool! In fact
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Good company.

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Leroy Brown

In this picture ICECUBES is definitely in good company! Although the comparison is clearly unfair… for them. 🙂 I just thought it was interesting to see how the first ICECUBES book was published compared to their first books. Lucky you,
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Backdrawing.

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Leroy Brown

When drawing on the outer edge of your panel, it’s important to extend the drawing as if you were drawing the whole character. Even if parts will get cut off it is a good idea to draw them to get
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