Reading this article again. I need to reiterate, what a bunch of nonsense. He developed Snoopy to be a different character than a dog version of Charlie Brown. So what? And your “Hallmark” examples are some Fox News level of trolling. Shultz had to make a strip a day, some jokes will fall flat. You can find just as…

I’ve read some strips on the newspaper from recent years and found them hardly funny and mostly plain. But also just finished this same morning a little compendium book I gave my daugther for her birthday... A completelly new perspective! Divided on decades, it shows the changes on the style of drawing from a simple…

if you can go through the “ little red-haired girl” storyline without wanting to sit alone in a dark room after, letting the hollow inside you have it’s say for a while - you may not be a human.I’ve done it a few times, and I’ve felt.like both C.B., and T.L.R.H.G.

Corollary question: Would there have been a Calvin and Hobbes had there not first been a Peanuts?

I have slowly been picking up the Fantagraphics reprints of the earlier years of Peanuts and they are so amazing. Sparky really was brutally great in the early years of the strips. It saddens me when I talk to people about how great Peanuts was and they never even realize the form it existed in when it began.

The people shouting abuse have now grown up and reside in the comments section of youtube, etc.

Aw, this one’s kinda funny tho.

The first twenty years of Peanuts is truly some of the best social commentary America has ever produced. It’s amazingly biting at times. It’s also a running diary of one man’s angst which gives it surprising depth. I’m sure it was a huge influence on Bill Watterson.

I think you’re missing the point of the comic strip. The series wasn’t a collection of characters and jokes. It was Charles Schultz’s soul. Each character stood for a different part of Schultz’s personality and the experiences he had in life. What made it funny and relatable is because it wasn’t fantasy, it was real.…

The older Schulz got, the more more depressed he got, and this shows up in the strip. The more certain relationships in his life deteriorated, well, all his feelings show up in the strip. Lucy is almost certainly a representation of first wife; their marriage ended acrimoniously and there are clues to this in the…

I feel like I just read the dissertation of someone seeking a graduate degree at the University of Phoenix.

“Do you see how different this strip is from the one in 1955?”

Good grief!

What's always entertaining about Mark Trail and the artist's tendency to throw in wildlife closeups in the middle of the action is sometimes the dialogue balloons make it look as if the wildlife is doing the talking. Squirrels in particular seem to talk out their butts a lot. That's kind of science fictiony when you…