Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 14, 2024

So…is only his smile wet?

New meaning to don’t put your face that way or it might get stuck.

Snoopy should’ve been more specific when he said “anybody”

Call a physicist!

Notice the hookah smoking caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland in the title panel.

My grandpa had a mastery of the reverse “Cheshire”-trick: He remained visible but his teeth disappeared little by little…

♪ Remember what the dormouse said Feed your head Feed your head ♫

Two straight Sundays of the “Alice in Wonderland” title panel…

Snoopy’s been smokin’ the wacky…

Maybe you should stop doing that trick.

Albo the Great? Who is he?

The hookah at the beginning explains a thing or two.

Never take more than you can handle, and always know your dealer.

“Albo The Great” Robert James Albo (May 8, 1932 – February 21, 2011) was an American physician, surgeon and amateur illusionist.23 He was for 40 years team physician for the Golden State Warriors as well as the Oakland Raiders.4 At one point he held the largest private magic collection in the world.

Albo was an amateur illusionist, and held a collection of magic apparatus that grew to be the world’s largest, with over 4000 items. Albo used it to write his well regarded series of books, Classic Magic With Apparatus. Originally intended as a trilogy, it eventually grew to 11 volumes. It was followed by further books focused on the magic of Okito and Thayer. In 1992, selected items from the collection were displayed over three of the terminals of San Francisco International Airport. In 1994, Albo agreed to sell the entire collection to David Copperfield, though some items were not transferred to Copperfield until 2010.3 Albo was a partner in the Palace of Magic shop in San Francisco and Magic Island in Newport Beach, California.7

Never call the fire department unless Snoopy’s dog house is on fire.

I wonder what year this was originally published. A hookah featured in the “throw away panel?” I wonder how many children said to their parents: What is that in front of the caterpillar and Woodstock?

False alarm?

A much later Sunday strip had Snoopy doing his ‘Cheshire beagle’ for Sally while she read ‘Alice in Wonderland’. By the end it was so exhausting to him, he asked her to read something else.

Albo the Great?

Go ask Alice. I think she’ll know…

Not appreciating the departure from innocence. Stop it now.

He should have called Ghost Busters

“Call my owner.” I thought everyone, even Snoopy, called him Charlie Brown by this point in the series.

Hope you come all the way back

try the 1933 film, with WC Fields as Humpty Dumpty