Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for June 21, 2023

Who is that?

Wow! Pig-Pen all clean and dressed up. Never seen that before.

There were later strips that showed Pigpen getting dirty mere seconds after cleaning up.

I would not recognize him either!

Looks like he’s wearing a ruffled tuxedo shirt with that bow tie!

Strangely enough, I did recognize him from the start—just something about his build, I guess. He’s really quite nice looking here.

Whoa! Is this the only strip Pig Pen is clean?!?

They really did him dirty.

Poor Pig-Pen.

I’m impressed Charlie recognized him.

There was a woman I once worked with back in the ‘80s who dressed in crazy clothes and colored her hair all kinds of interesting colors. She was wondering what to do one year for Halloween. I told her she should take all the color out of her hair, wear a plain brown dress, use minimal makeup, and see if anyone recognized her. She laughed, but she didn’t try it.

He must have given his real name at the door and said that he is aka Pig-Pen. Does anyone know what his real name is?

If the birthday host and the other guests didn’t recognize Pig-Pen, how did Charlie Brown even recognize him?

Charlie Brown was my childhood and always will be a part of me even when I’m older.

Pig-pen didn’t get the ‘gen’ on the uniform of the day.

I don’t know why they didn’t let him in. He looks great, probably better than everyone else!