Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for January 31, 2024

That’s the way to do it, Charlie Brown.

Hope your mom doesn’t find out, Charlie Brown.

Taking the tub for a test drive.

Calvin??

CB is a real stinker.

My younger brother tried the old trick of running water into the tub and splashing about some to make our mother think he’d taken a bath. It didn’t work. She became suspicious because he was completely dry as was his hair.

Then you can’t play with your toys CB.

Obeying the letter of the law, if not the spirit.

I remember being a kid and just making noise in the tub with my hands without getting in. COULD NOT figure out how she knew I didn’t bathe.

getting dry cleaned by doing a dry run practice.

Air Baths. Benjamin Franklin is purported to have taken them daily in front of an open window. Though he might have had ulterior motives……

There are no words emphatic enough to convey how much I prefer the early “Peanuts” visual style to any of the later versions.