Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 09, 2012

Is this the introduction of Snoopy wearing his supper dish as a hat?

it must have been the introduction of snoopy wearing his dish on his head otherwise it wouldn’t be enough of a gag, it would have been something he’d already done

Snoopy doesn’t seem too enthusiastic about the reunion…

Don’t go Snoopy. There are always arguments at familyreunions. It’s the booze that does it !!

Rest In Peace Charlie Schulz

Where did the name Peanuts come from and what is the connection to the strip?

“Li’l Folks” was an earlier strip with characters who could’ve come from “Peanuts.”

Schulz wanted to call this strip “Good Ol’ Charlie Brown” when United Feature Syndicate picked it up in October 1950, but UFS didn’t want the strip’s title to focus on one character so they made the choice to call it “Peanuts.” Schulz didn’t like the name, true, but he was a struggling cartoonist at the time and was willing to live with it because, well. a man’s gotta eat.

That would have been rather difficult, since laptops didn’t exist in 1965, when this strip was first run. Nope, that’s an old-fashioned suitcase, from long before they invented luggage on wheels.

Love your pillbox hat Snoopy. Did Jacqueline Kennedy copy that from you?

Love the comic. Hate the flashing header — I always have to scroll down enough that the header is out of the window to read the comic.

“Calvin talking like a professor”—Yes indeed! especially in the comics running this week over in Calvin and Hobbes, with Calvin spouting off knowledgeably about segmentation in the magazine market!

That wasn’t a laptop. Snoopy was packing a suitcase.

“Lil Folks” was the first title of the strip, then “Good Ol’ Charlie Brown.” It was renamed when somebody mentioned the similarity of the title to an idea somebody else had. There were the same characters in both. “Peanuts” was chosen by the syndicate to get attention from the readers. I think somebody thought the name would refer to the size of the characters, most of whom were children. The dog dish became a symbol of when Snoopy was being a traveler, like to summer camp or to the spelling bee.

Bye Snoopy. Have a good time at the reunion.

♫☺♫☺We are family!♫☺♫☺

In Denmark it’s actually called “Radishes”. Seriously.

I did — until I realized it was far too early.