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Biffy the Elephant Shrew
11-11-2011, 10:56 AM
Today's Classic Peanuts strip in my local paper is a Veterans' Day strip from 1998 with Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe appearing alongside Snoopy. Is this the only time adults have appeared on-panel in a Peanuts strip?

bup
11-11-2011, 11:07 AM
An adult's hand appeared in an early Peanuts (Charlie Brown at a sales counter in a store), but otherwise, I'm pretty sure yes.

breezman
11-11-2011, 08:39 PM
There's a good treatment of this question in the Peanuts FAQ (http://fivecentsplease.org/dpb/peantfaq.txt).

Bryan Ekers
11-11-2011, 09:20 PM
There's a good treatment of this question in the Peanuts FAQ (http://fivecentsplease.org/dpb/peantfaq.txt).

I'm mildly annoyed by this part:
2.10) Did Schulz draw and write Peanuts to the very end? I heard somebody else took his place years earlier!

Of all the thoughtless and silly questions that sometimes pop up, this has to be the worst. How can you examine any single Peanuts strip and not KNOW, without question, that they always were rendered by the same hand?

Jeez, pal, get over it - he wasn't exactly Rembrandt.

BigT
11-13-2011, 03:04 PM
Today's Classic Peanuts strip in my local paper is a Veterans' Day strip from 1998 with Bill Mauldin's Willie and Joe appearing alongside Snoopy. Is this the only time adults have appeared on-panel in a Peanuts strip?

I did a quick google for this and didn't find it. Anyone have a link?

Biffy the Elephant Shrew
11-13-2011, 03:18 PM
Here's the strip:

http://veteransbreakfastclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/peanuts1.jpg?w=300

Sternvogel
11-13-2011, 08:12 PM
Today's "Classic Peanuts" (at least in the local newspaper) features an interesting example -- a clearly adult doctor "drawn" by Linus, similar to the way little Billy occasionally takes "pun in hand" for Family Circus panels.

It's on line (for a few more hours, anyway) here (http://www.peanuts.com/).

Scubaqueen
11-13-2011, 08:34 PM
Kudos to everyone here who even knowswho Willie and Joe are. I'm impressed.