Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for September 04, 2015

it takes 12 muscles to smile and 11 to frown.

The caterpillar of the goat moth has two hundred and eighty-seven muscles in its head. Imagine the smiles and frowns on that little face. Or do you have to have lips to smile?

He’d really feel like a father if Schroder need’s changing. And probably like so many fathers he’d get Patty to do it

Schroeder and Linus were the only ones who never bullied good ol’ Charlie Brown.

Hey, Charlie Dad, better start saving now for his college education.

Smile!

Enjoy it while you can, Chuck…

Hand over your wallet Dad.

I think the jury is still out on the smile versus frown issue!

The last I heard, they weren’t happy with the decision…

He wasn’t looking at Charlie Brown before he smiled. that makes me think that someone else made him smile.

Sorry, Charlie — but off-panel somebody was playing a Beethoven selection on their mini piano.

Charlie Brown’s shirt is back to being orange instead of yellow, I see. (There’s an interesting discussion of the colorizing of “Peanuts” over at “Peanuts” today.)

Schroeder (as a baby) used to look like P.J. Keane from The Family Circus of which I adore it as I do all the good “clean-cut” comics.and not the sorry ones that pass [gas] for comics these days.

That’s baby Schroeder’s “Beethoven scowly face” in the first panel. ♪♫Suzannesingsdoremi♪♫