From October 1950,when the very first installments of Peanuts was published, every single installment of the strip was drawn by Charles M. Schulz's own hand, or the only variations in the style of the characters' depictions came organically through the evolution of Schulz's own drawing style. Even when the characters contain appeared outside their domestic strip,in various animated specials or in the Dell or Boom comedian books, the animators and artists contain closely aped Schulz's style.
That's what makes Boom Studios' new Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz so compelling. It's difficult to assume what any other artist's version of the iconic characters might look like, and but this book is full of them,and being faced with these characters divorced from their creator's designs is fascinating and at times even disconcerting. It's tough to look at the realistic image of Charlie Brown by Ryan Sook on the cover of the book, staring into the eyes of the "genuine" Charlie Brown, and not be a little freaked out,isn't it?
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Source: comicsalliance.com