The artist I chose to focus on is Charles Schulz. I chose Charles Schulz because I grew up reading the Peanuts comic strip in the newspaper and watching the Peanuts’ holiday programs. Although Schulz didn’t think of himself as an artist, his art subverted Hegemony with the way he presented my favorite of his characters, Peppermint Patty. I remember asking my mother if Peppermint Patty was a boy or a girl. I was raised to think that girls wore dresses and played with dolls. Peppermint Patty is a “tomboy who loves sports and games, excels at baseball, and likes to use the colorful language of the blue-collar worker” (Crain 42). Her character was added to the Peanuts gang in the late 1960’s, a time when women were pushing against the hegemonic
