''Young Pillars'' is a single-panel gag strip written and drawn by

Charles M. Schulz Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip ''Peanuts'', featuring what are probably his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He is wi ...

(best known for ''

Peanuts ''Peanuts'' is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. ''Peanuts'' is among the most popular and infl ...

'') from 1956 to 1965 for the ''Youth'' Magazine published by the Church of God. Unlike ''Peanuts'', the comic featured teenagers, and most were religiously themed. The main character was named Harold. The strips were frequently rerun, sometimes with edited captions. Schulz made five additional similar gag panels, which ran (with one rerun from ''Youth'') in the magazine ''Reach'', another Church of God publication, in 1969. ''Young Pillars'' was published in a three-volume collection in the early 1960s, and marketed as showing

Charlie Brown Charles "Charlie" Brown is the principal character of the comic strip '' Peanuts'', syndicated in daily and Sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world. Depicted as a "lovable loser," Charlie Brown is one of the great American a ...

and his friends as teenagers, although none of the characters shared the same names.

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American comic strips Christian comics Gag cartoon comics Gag-a-day comics 1956 comics debuts 1965 comics endings Teen comedy comics Charles M. Schulz {{comic-strip-stub