# Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

14 Hacker News commenters recommended Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended for its humor and insight into relationships, especially the clever, melancholy early strips. Some critics find later Snoopy material cute and mundane.

## Why people recommend it

- Humor and insight into relationships (2 comments): "read Peanuts everyday as a kid, still read Peanuts everyday as an adult. It has great humor and insight into relationships." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079382)) "a combination of solace in the face of cruelty, humor, gentleness and truthfulness there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078816))
- Early strips clever, deep and brilliant (5 comments): "In the 80s I read all the comics compilations from the late 50s -> 70s, that was the golden age of the strip." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078682)) "Early Peanuts was more focused on the melancholy aspects of childhood and was truly brilliant." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096634)) "the comics - especially the older ones are incredibly clever and funny and insightful" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074758))
- Melancholy and solace in childhood (2 comments): "Early Peanuts was more focused on the melancholy aspects of childhood and was truly brilliant." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096634)) "a combination of solace in the face of cruelty, humor, gentleness and truthfulness there" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078816))

## What people warn about

- Snoopy turned cute and Flanderized (2 comments): "Snoopy was more ensuring than Charlie Brown, but even that was more "cute cartoon" than anything to do with any message." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722419)) "Snoopy becoming Flanderized, as in the "Happiness is a warm puppy" stuff from the 1960s." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080396))
- Dull and mundane, did not resonate (2 comments): "Peanuts was by far the least interesting to me and didn’t resonate at all" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46079765)) "Peanuts was just another mundane strip." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077688))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Dilbert by Scott Adams](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dilbert.md): 77 recommend
- [Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson](https://hackerapproved.com/p/calvin-and-hobbes.md): 71 recommend
- [XKCD webcomic](https://hackerapproved.com/p/xkcd-thing.md): 25 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz", https://hackerapproved.com/p/peanuts/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).