Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 26, 2014

I don’t mind the colorizing of these comic strips but that red face on Charlie Brown just bugs me.

Poor Linus is gonna have nightmares.

Question… Is the Kite-Eating-Tree a Cannibal…??

The inking of the strip is not something added by GoComics. This was done by Schultz. He often did it to emphasize emotion. This would also be seen in the animated shows.

I think the coloring is often too intense. I do not remember the colors being that dark when the Chicago Tribune colored the dailies.

I certainly don’t remember this colorizing on the strips’ first go-round in the papers (and the dailys were never in color) – I don’t like it, it’s like visual canned laughter, cuing us into moods that are already obvious. It’s cheap..

Kite eating trees are not cold, Linus.

Poor ol’ Charlie Brown.And also poor Linus… He looks really freaked out but then who wouldn’t be?xxx

Charlie Brown is seeing red in the third panel.

Just like any statue could be a Weeping Angel. Don’t look away and don’t blink!

Never had a kite eaten by a tree that I flew..Car windshield at 30 mph yes… now there’s a story..

Did anybody notice that Charlie Brown is red in the 3rd panel?

@tsandl

Good for you that you remember the color schemes Schulz used on the Sunday strips. The point is, THE DAILIES WERE NOT IN COLOR. How do you, or “someone familiar with Schulz’s style” know what he would or would not have done if the dailies were in color? The stories, characterizations, wording were his by design. I personally find it insulting that someone “guess” what he would have done or wanted on a particular single daily strip. Just because Linus was green on a Sunday in 1967 or C.B. was red on whatever date does NOT mean that’s what would have been…oh, what’s the use. You apologists will find any conclusion to justify this sloppy excuse to satisfy people who can’t abide by the strip in their original form.

well Charlie Brown’s mad that why he has the red face

Linus saying brrr cause Charlie said any of these trees could be a kite eating tree eh????!!!!!!!!!!