Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 23, 2011

<< On Thursday, over at Calvin and Hobbes, JusSayin jus’ said: “@Hobbes: I don’t remember seeing Snoopy’s name on the front of the house, say when Schulz showed people approaching the front to do some work in the house, or even when good old Charlie Brown would serve him dinner.” >>Hi JusSayinYou are mostly correct, but that’s because those things generally happened in later years after Schulz had begun to draw the doghouse from the side view, rather than using the perspective view.However, here is an early strip that is an exception:Click here: Peanuts (1954)Here is the very first time that Snoopy’s doghouse appeared in Peanuts, which was one year after the strip began. In those days, Snoopy might have a bone by his doghouse, but Charlie Brown fed him elsewhere:Click here: Peanuts (1951)For about the first ten years of the strip, Charlie Brown did not bring Snoopy’s supper out to the doghouse. Here is a strip from that timeframe that shows Snoopy on his doghouse, but with Charlie Brown calling him to come and get his supper:Click here: Peanuts (1958)By the time that Charlie Brown began bringing Snoopy’s supper out to his doghouse, Charles Schulz was in the midst of transitioning from the perspective view to the side view, and he only showed the supper episodes from the side view. Here is the first time that Charlie Brown brought Snoopy his supper:Click here: Peanuts (1959)

It makes sense to me, Charlie Brown. Procrastination only leads to burning the midnight oil on the the last day of Christmas vacation to get a D-. No thanks!

Thanks for old comics Hobbes! Merry Christmas to all! :-D

Me too, Charlie. Me too.

Later today we’re giving away the big 7.9 lbs “Celebrating Peanuts” http://amzn.to/s94Yubbook on the GoComics Facebook page http://on.fb.me/nckZad

Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow

Hi, may everyone have a very Merry Christmas, or Hanukkah or Kwanza, or whatever, & a Happy & Prosperous New Year.

Hi mabrndt. The ©PNTS copyright on the Peanuts Holiday Countdown strip stands for “Peanuts Worldwide,” a new company that does global licensing of Peanuts products. It is partially owned by Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, which is located in Schulz’s former studio in Santa Rosa, California.I don’t know who created the “Christmas Countdown” series, but they look to me like original Schulz drawings to which words have been added by someone else, like the Hallmark Peanuts cards in the stores now. For example, in the December 17th panel, Lucy is calling the bird Woodstock, but it doesn’t look like Woodstock – it looks like one of the generic birds from the days before Woodstock. Click here: Dec. 17 Christmas Countdown

@Hobbes: As always, thanks for the memories. Note that in the strip with Snoopy in his usual pose lying on his doghouse, he is not using his ears to hold on. (Which I would never have noticed, if you had not pointed out that’s what he usually does.)

…..and everything you stand for

Hi Dr Fogg, R-Noonan63, TACOPIELVR, and MysteryCat.Glad to share these strips with you. For me, part of the pleasure of comic strips is reading them for enjoyment, but there is even more pleasure in sharing them with others. It’s like doing photography – there’s not as much pleasure in it if you take a lot of photos but never share them with anyone.Speaking of memories, today’s strip is the first Peanuts strip that I ever read.MysteryCat: Good observation about Snoopy’s ears on the doghouse. Maybe he pulls them up just before he rolls off at suppertime, to prevent them from getting tangled up.:>)

Hi Number 3 (Half sister of…… well, you know the rest….. )Charles Schulz drew Peanuts for nearly 50 years, with his strips published from October 1950 until February 2000. It has been rerun since then, covering many of his best years in the 1960s and early 1970s. So far, the reruns have been from 1959-1964, and 1969-1974. We are currently in 1964, so the next 4 years should be from 1965-1968.

@R_Noonan63: You asked about Snoopy’s doghouse sometimes being blue, yellow, or red. As far as I know, when Schulz’s original Sunday comics were published in the papers, at least during the 1960s and 1970s, the doghouse was red or brown, and the birds were yellow. The original daily strips were black and white, so the daily strips on this site have had colors added by someone else – hence, various colors for the doghouse, blue birds sometimes, etc.But the Sunday strips on this site also look like they have had colors added to a black-and-white Sunday version, using a computer. If you zoom in on the colored Sunday (or daily) comics using imaging software, the colors are uniform like computer colors, not screen-printed with little colored dots like in a newspaper.

I’m watching CB Christmas on DVD tonight. UNCUT! “Yes, he even does a good penguin.”

Which one? The 1939 Fleischer animated version which totally changes the reason for the Lilliputian war from which end of a hard boiled egg to what the national anthem should be? And totally ignores two-thirds of the book?

Actually I’m not sure what surprises me most; that a teacher would assign a book like Gulliver’s Travels to a group of kids in Grade 3 or 4, or that Violet has not only read the book but completed her report in the short period between the assignment being given and the two or three or however many days they’re into their Christmas holidays.

Hi gmartin997. I’ve always been very interested in Peanuts, partly because so many later comic strips, including Calvin and Hobbes, owe a huge debt to Charles Schulz. It’s hard to imagine what the comics would be like today if Schulz hadn’t survived World War II; or if he hadn’t been so incredibly determined to become a syndicated cartoonist, at a time when syndicate executives didn’t understand what he was trying to do.But I usually only post at Calvin and Hobbes, since I don’t have time to post regularly on multiple strips. I have more in common with Calvin and Hobbes, since Calvin’s tiger friend looks so much like me, and we have the same name.

Hi mabrndt“Peanuts Worldwide” and “PNTS” are two alternative copyright markings, so we should be seeing both in the future. “PNTS” was chosen as a shorthand to fit in small spaces. For example, see the MetLife copyright guidelines for use of Snoopy, at the following link:Click here: MetLife“Peanuts Worldwide” replaced United Feature Syndicate (UFS), and its parent company United Media, for Peanuts licensing, when it acquired the Peanuts assets in 2010. United Feature Syndicate had the strip for 60 years, because they are the company that originally hired Charles Schulz and syndicated his strip in 1950.“Peanuts Worldwide” is now owned 20% by Creative Associates, which includes members of the Schulz family and others, at the former Schulz studio in Santa Rosa, California. It is owned 80% by the Iconix Brand Group, a global licensing company.Craig Schulz, one of Charles Schulz’s sons, is the president and CEO of Creative Associates. So the Schulz family now has more control over how the Peanuts characters are used.Happy Holidays to you too.

Charlie Brown had to read War and Peace once during Christmas vacation. Is he a kid genius? I LOVE Peanuts!

Hobbes makes a good historian.