Willie & Joe in Peanuts

[Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew]

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]

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]

There’s a good treatment of this question in the Peanuts FAQ.

[Bryan_Ekers]

@breezman

There’s a good treatment of this question in the Peanuts FAQ.

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]

@Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew

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]

Here’s the strip:

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

[Sternvogel]

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.

[Scubaqueen]

Kudos to everyone here who even knowswho Willie and Joe are. I’m impressed.