Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz

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1. read Peanuts everyday as a kid, still read Peanuts everyday as an adult. It has great humor and insight into relationships.

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”

2. Snoopy was more ensuring than Charlie Brown, but even that was more "cute cartoon" than anything to do with any message.

   Mixed · Jan 2026 · in “Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"”

3. In the 80s I read all the comics compilations from the late 50s -> 70s, that was the golden age of the strip.

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”

4. Early Peanuts was more focused on the melancholy aspects of childhood and was truly brilliant.

   Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland”

5. a combination of solace in the face of cruelty, humor, gentleness and truthfulness there

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”

6. Snoopy becoming Flanderized, as in the "Happiness is a warm puppy" stuff from the 1960s.

   Mixed · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”

7. the comics - especially the older ones are incredibly clever and funny and insightful

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”

8. Early strips are very different. Dark, sarcastic, double meaning, lots of depth.

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”

9. I've heard that pre-Snoopy Peanuts is excellent and deep

   Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland”

10. Peanuts was by far the least interesting to me and didn’t resonate at all

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”

11. Peanuts was just another mundane strip.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”

12. A big part of what makes Charlie Brown so endearing is his undying earnestness and optimism

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"”

13. It resonates childhood logic and contradiction.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)”