The insight of “Peanuts”, a cartoon which first appeared in October 1950
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitask“Peanuts” celebrates the pleasures of friendship, but also registers the pain of unrequited love and the gulf between fantasy and reality. Each instalment, drawn with crisp simplicity, provides a brief lesson in the elusive nature of happiness. With their large heads and tiny torsos, the characters look vulnerable, and though the setting may be wholesomely suburban, the tone is mostly downbeat.
It was the embryo of “Peanuts”, the first instalment of which appeared in October 1950. He would draw another 17,897, the last appearing the day after his death in February 2000, by which time the strip had graced 2,000 newspapers in 72 countries. The name was never to Schulz’s taste: foisted on him by his publisher, it apparently derived from “peanut gallery”, slang for the cheapest seats in a vaudeville theatre.
Charlie Brown, who suffers one setback after another, pickles in self-doubt yet remains determined to succeed. Linus, a sensitive boy, seeks to answer loss and loneliness with philosophy. Schroeder is a piano prodigy and a perfectionist, isolated by his obsession with Beethoven.
Schulz’s most famous creation, however, is not a child. Snoopy, Charlie’s pet beagle, is sunny yet meditative, selfish but loyal; he dreams of success as a novelist and of being a British flying ace. Trivia fans may be glad to know that he is the only “Peanuts” character permitted to kiss and that the reader never sees inside his kennel.
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