introducing Peanuts characters
- By : Nat
- Category : Uncategorized
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.
