Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 19, 2024

Definitely a box kite – much more nutritious and filling. Those wimpy kites are just appetizers.

Box kite = box lunch.

One traditional kite, lightly salted, with a bit of sweet sauce, hold the dressing. And a fresh water from France to drink.

’Tis the season. I love the kite-eating tree. One time you could hear “chomp chomp chomp.” And once Lucy ? looked up when Charlie Brown told her not to, and was traumatized. Some very funny strips from this “character.”

I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen Charlie Brown’s sarcastic expression before…

If it’s always the same tree, Chuckles—try flying your kite in a different area.

Here we go.

CB is really out of his tree.

Don’t press your luck, Chuck.

In today’s Cleats strip, Bertha bought a Japanese kite that can withstand kite-eating trees. Maybe Charlie Brown should get one of those.

Up north where I live it still happens to be WINTER.I guess I’m not lucky like Charlie Brown and his kite to be living in southern California or Florida where it looks like it is already summer for him!

What is a box kite?

Starting the arc with Charlie Brown after being accused of eating a Kite Eating Tree runs away and meets up with 4 kids (Austin, Ruby, Leland, and Milo) and tries to start his own baseball team with them.

I think that tree is loved!

A box kite and a serving of good grief

Someone’s teetering on the edge.

Get the chainsaw out Charlie Brown.

How abt threatening the tree with a saw or an axe? He could take his sister or Linus with him as his Official Axe/Saw Carrier and perhaps that kite eating tree would be cowtailed to become less aggressive.

That red kite looks like a chewable vitamin to the tree

“Just bring me the Special of the Day!”

keep working it Charlie ;+)

Never liked box kites

I hadn’t thought about it before, but the Peanuts community reminds me of my home life when I was a boy in Camden. We lived there for 4 years. The backyards were open, no fences, and they converged on one very good kite eating tree. But, that tree never ate one of my kites. But, the clothes lines were the biggest problem. No dryers then.

your heart’s too big to stay mad at a poor hungry kite-eating tree. especially when it’s gone all winter without eating anything. it’s okay Charlie, show your compassion.

No sarcasm there.

It does my heart good to see CB occasionally get in a good dig.

A menu WOULD be nice please……

It’ll land in it either way

In Japan they had kites called a wanwan-dako. It was about 75 feet wide, weighed just under 3 tons, & required 150-200 men to fly it.

My thought has always been CB should try a different kind of kite. Diamonds are really hard to get to fly right. A flare or sled would’ve worked better. ‘Course that wouldn’t be funny.

The duel continues

Try offering sacrificial virgins, Chuck. If it works for dragons…

And the war continues.

See today’s Cleats comic strip!!!!

Do I detect a note of sarcasm, Charlie Brown?

By this point, the Peanuts daily strips take on a slightly different look up until 1988. The lettering is noticeably larger.