"The Peanuts Feed Would Be Better If
it included the date the comic originally ran," complained one of my blog readers. The date appears on the Web site just above the comic strip, but it doesn’t get transmitted in the feed. Knowing when the strip originally ran is not only interesting, but it gives the cartoon a bit of context, too. Yes, many of The Peanuts’ strips are completely timeless, but knowing that comments about dogs being sent to war without the right to vote were published during the Vietnam War gives readers a hint of what that time’s issues might have been and what Charles M. Schulz might have had on his mind.
The Peanuts now appears in this blog’s aggregator.
Back in elementary school, a friend convinced me to check out a book of Peanuts’ comics. It was the first comic book I ever read and since I was new to reading at the time, I felt a little like I was cheating. I think I might make a trip to a local library soon to see if I can find some Peanuts …
July 21st, 2004 at 9:54 pm
Fantagraphics has started putting out some very nice collections of early Peanuts cartoons:
http://www.fantagraphics.com/peanuts/peanuts.html