The explosive, dazzling color, expressionistic imagination, and big-as-life proportions are Tom Everhart's signature elements...his artwork is the culmination of 20 years of close association with cartoonist Charles M. Schulz and the ®Peanuts phenomenon. The only fine artist authorized to artistically render the ®Peanuts characters, Everhart had been a successful painter of large-scale landscapes before being asked to render drawings of the ®Peanuts characters for a commercial project in 1980. With no background in cartooning, Everhart prepared for the task by projecting Schulz's comic strips onto a 25-foot wall in his studio for closer examination. He was stunned to discover that, blown up larger than life, Schulz's pen strokes closely connected to his own painting style. His immediate fascination with Schulz's "line" — and his remarkable ability to capture it with his own distinct interpretation — impressed Schulz and launched a friendship and collaboration that continued until Schulz’s death in February 2000.

Limited-edition fine-art lithographs based on Everhart's ®Peanuts paintings are distributed exclusively by Everhart's fine art publisher under an agreement with United Media (licensor of the rights to both Schulz's comic strip characters and the Everhart lithographs). Capturing the full impact and vitality of Everhart’s self-described "frenzied" color and line is the job of the publisher's atelier. The publisher's artisans, using paintings on paper and canvas by Everhart as a starting point, work directly with Everhart to painstakingly create these fine artworks with traditional hands-on, hand-pulled lithography techniques.