introducing Peanuts characters

In the early days of Peanuts, it may have been a little hard to get to know the characters, because Schulz didn’t often include their names in the strip. Shermy, for example, was the very first Peanuts character to speak in the strip, the only character to talk in the first strip from October 2, 1950…. but his name didn’t get mentioned until after Christmas.

This was a shortcoming that Schulz seemed to have recognized by the time that Peanuts started having a Sunday page. The very first Sunday – June 6, 1952 – features the first five of the strip’s ongoing characters: Charlie Brown, Shermy, Patty, Snoopy, and Violet. Of these, only Violet goes unnamed in the strip.

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Random little catch-up items

So many little things to catch up on. So much going on… and my life is so full (my son is heading off to college this week.) What can I cover? While Dolores goes unnamed in theĀ A Summer Musical special, I am told that she is named in the Cantonese …

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Addendum to the The Wolf video

Shortly after I posted the video about the comic strip”The Wolf” which suggested ways in which it set the path for “Peanuts”, my pal and co-writer, Schulz Museum curator Benjamin L. Clark, pointed out something I had missed — while “Willie” had offered strips run in a two-tier format before …

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Unquote alone

The warning signs about the new book Rediscovering the True Meaning of Christmas with A Charlie Brown Christmas”: Celebrating Christmas with a Charlie Brown Touch starts with the title, and its curious use of a single double-quotation mark. That’s part of the name every time it’s listed, whether on the …