Trying to identify Sunday Comics characters in an art print - also artist intials JZS?

[sebastians-attic]

Picked up a vintage print recently and can't identify all the comics characters or the artist. Any help would be appreciated. The Peanuts characters are a given, as are Dennis and Ruff, Billy from Family Circus and Nancy / Sluggo. I need help with those that have a red arrow underneath. The artist initial look like JZS but could be something else. The last photo shows the paper it's printed on when held to the light - some kind of fiber weave? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[melda58]

Maybe this person?

https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/blog/13074627/meet-a-local-cartoonist-a-chat-with-jennifer-...

Rita

[maxine*j]

The fellow leaning with on ehand on Snoopy's doghouse looks like one of Tom Ryan's "Tumbleweeds" characters.

[Anonymous]

Third in from left with the hat, mustache and bear might be a Teddy Roosevelt reference.

[yankeebob1951]

The kid in the striped shirt 2nd to the right from the doghouse is Dondi

[raclyn]

Thank you! I should have recognized that perpetually 5 year-old orphan child

[janetpjohn_la]

The signature on her web site is a match.
Janet

[sonomabarn67]

OP should send her an email.

[maxine*j]

Jennifer Zyren Smith has a Twitter account, too:

https://twitter.com/jenniferzyren?lang=en

Too bad OP seems to have done a post-and-poof, since the very first reply (Rita's) nailed it.

[sonomabarn67]

But we can still talk about it for days !

[yankeebob1951]

Hopefully they did follow up on Rita's post & just didn't bother to come back...

Interesting Charles Schultz letter in the twitter feed...he's one of those people who I always found interesting in interviews (including one by Whoopi Goldberg  during her short-lived  show decades ago)... but just find Peanuts "Meh!" at best (and I know I'm definitely in the minority there)

[maxine*j]

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@yankeebob1951 wrote:

Hopefully they did follow up on Rita's post & just didn't bother to come back...

Interesting Charles Schultz letter in the twitter feed...he's one of those people who I always found interesting in interviews (including one by Whoopi Goldberg  during her short-lived  show decades ago)... but just find Peanuts "Meh!" at best (and I know I'm definitely in the minority there)

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OP has not been off-line since posting this thread.  I guess I should say not signed in since.  Maybe s/he checked the thread without being signed in.

I rather liked Peanuts in its very early days, when it had some edge and bite, when Charley Brown had a bit of complexity to him.  Then it just got blandly cute, presumably because the Hallmark Snoopy Christmas Ornaments (and the squillion other "collectibles") sold a lot better that way. 

[yankeebob1951]

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@maxine*j wrote:

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I rather liked Peanuts in its very early days, when it had some edge and bite, when Charley Brown had a bit of complexity to him.  Then it just got blandly cute, presumably because the Hallmark Snoopy Christmas Ornaments (and the squillion other "collectibles") sold a lot better that way. 

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I'll have to hunt up some of the early stuff sometime...I think I've only seen the "blandly cute" years, haha!

[lacemaker3]

Here's one

http://assets.amuniversal.com/8b60da10f8a10130151a001dd8b71c47

[sebastians-attic]

Not sure if this reply goes out to all of you but  I want to thank  you all for your replies and help. I will certainly follow up on that link to the possible artist.

sebastians-attic