Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for May 13, 2015

Get used to being snubbed by this snob, Chuck…

So that’s what Violet originally looked like.

I picked the comics I want and now I have to do it again.

shhhhhhh Charlie, intro yourself

Violet was a cutie in those days!!

I remember reading a strange poem in the 70s which I can’t find online entitled “Paranoia.” One of the lines was: “You take the dog out for a walk. A pretty girl comes up and asks you for the dog’s phone number.”

My favourite line of the poem, however, was, “When you defrost the refrigerator, the TV drips.”

eventually she started looking like what Lucy would become, and she liked CB in the early strips but eventually with the first Patty started the put downs of CB and acted superior and was eventually taken out because she was too much a “straight character” of comedy

The debut of Violet in Peanuts.

Interesting how her hair was drawn initially, apparently to give a sense of depth or texture.

This brings the strip to 5 characters

There goes the neighborhood.

Finally we see Violet. Don’t remember her hair looking like that, even in the early strips. She wasn’t mean to Charlie Brown in the early days, either. Neither was Lucy.

I don’t think he became a punching bag for a few years, but that may be what turned the corner for “Peanuts” because a lot of readers related to the angst CB would bring to the table. Until then, it was just another cute strip without much depth to its characters.

Charlie, “It isn’t raining rain you know, it’s raining Violets…”

Loosely translated, puppies (such as Snoopy in his early years) are cute; Charlie Brown is, well, kind of blah. Get used to it, Charlie Brown; welcome to the real world!

Awww…Snoopy’s in luv. :)

Awww, what a sweet girl! what happenned to her? Was she replaced by her evil twin sister?

Consider yourself lucky Charlie. You will see what I mean.

Also, wow, I thought that was Lucy.