Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for January 07, 2015

Snoopy’s debut! Dang it, 7 minutes late. Anyways, how can Snoopy get a flower on his head?

So many questions.

Kind of fun to think about who morphed into what character. At this stage there weren’t fixed personalities.

I don’t think Snoopy likes being all wet.

Wow, Snoopy was so little and cute back then.

yeeeeup, snoopy started out a simple beagle

This is great but still waiting for strips I haven’t seen. These first strips have been published before for decades. I remember getting the Peanuts Jubilee coffee table book back in the mid-70’s when I was a kid that had them.

Snoopy’s first Peanuts appearance.

The big question on my mind is why does Snoopy have a flower on his head?

It’s interesting that for the first few years it’s not clear—to me, anyway—whose dog Snoopy is. He seems to be more of a neighborhood dog that doesn’t belong to anyone in particular.

“What just happened?”

It’s interesting that the early strip had none of the complex interrelationships of complex characters that developed later on. The early strip leaned heavily on the other children’s contempt for, and violence against, Charlie Brown. Apparently Charlie Schulz had a lot of anger and frustration left over from his childhood that had to be worked out first.

@Kris JacksonCharlie Brown could be violent himself in the early strips. And both Patty and Violet had it in the backs of their minds (and sometimes in the fronts) that they would marry Charlie Brown one day. The most violent character of all, Lucy, wasn’t even born yet by this point.

Wait! Doggone it! Snoopy was never, ever just a dog!

I wonder why Snoopy changes his appearance so much over the course of Peanuts.

I love so cute Snoopy in the 1950 Peanut Comic Strip. :-)

Schulz had not yet placed the kids in the suburban, postwar housing development setting that would eventually come. Patty seems to be living in a sidewalk facing apartment.