Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for July 03, 2016

The same happened last week, dark outline behind the color layer.

The character development (and artwork) in these early strips was so different from the later strips that are, I think, generally better known. Does anyone know 1. what time period these early character development strips spanned, and 2. was the transition to the more modern characters a gradual one, or more abruptly done?

Ah seriously! Not again! Who is doing these prints anyway? No matter, it’s a good thing I still remember this particular strip. Quite enjoyable. Lucy antagonizes Charlie Brown, but unlike in later years, she does it without meaning it… I think.

Thanks, Durandal.I’m not sure Lucy is doing it to be obnoxious, she’s just doing a toddler—many of them are destructive, just like puppies. It’s there, so it’s mine, I can tear it apart…oh, it’s not pretty now…on to the next object!

Thanks.

Thanks dude!

This coloring glitch has appeared numerous times by now. I’m surprised it continues to happen without correction. Thanks for the link, Durandal_1707.

Does anyone else find Lucy’s eyes creepy in these early strips?

Same thing happened today with Diamond Lil.

Durandal_1707, thank you.

Once, I can understand.Twice, I don’t really.Thrice, I totally don’t get it.I understand it’s a lot of work, but how many people has to check this before it’s published online?!

Usually it’s just this one, but today it’s Diamond Lil, too.

I, too, wonder about the character progression. Charlie Brown is quite different, often a smart ass.

Thanks so much for the link!

Obviously, there is no quality control……

@durandal: many thanks.

I hope the collectible print is not as it is shown.Who would want to buy a washed out print!!

Charlie Brown (before): About 100, 150 records (including some real rarities, by today’s standards!).Charlie Brown now: Zero records; and about 1,000 pieces of record!

Thanks for the link, Durandal_1707

He didn’t seem to care that much for the state of his records later:

http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1954/07/25

Then again, it wasn’t actually his.

http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1952/03/30

March 30 1952

Thanks for posting a readable color version of this strip. You should tell whoever messed up the color how to do there job correctly.

What the heck! Doesn’t anybody proofread these?!

They’ve posted these unreadable versions enough times for it to be intentional. The question is WHY do they keep doing it?

OOPS!

If you hit the magnifying glass icon, the enlarged version, while still missing much of the black plate, is faint but legible.

Really shows how times have changed. Figure sixteen years ago it would have been a CD collection, thirty-two years ago a cassette tape collection. Today it would be an MP3 player, though that would only end up with teeth marks on it.

Might have been fun if it was legible

Thanks, Toonerific!

Charlie Brown’s face in the last panel…

Lucy: “Wanna bite? (This was Charlie Brown’s very last as-yet-unbroken record — Break! — right over her knee!) Here, Charlie Brown! Here your half of the record, and here my half! C’mon, eat, eat! (Chomp [break, break, break…!]) Funny, it don’t have much taste!”

Neither vinyl nor shellac is particularly eatable (I say that rather than “edible” because I’m talking about biting, chewing, and swallowing, rather than digesting). But there were kiddie records made of thin plastic layers glued over white paper with color printing glued over cardboard; I suppose you could kinda-sorta eat them.