For those who don’t know: lots of fans (jokingly) speculate they were a couple. What was “Sparky’s” opinion on the matter?
He drew them. Gave them voices. Why not?
Rather doubt his intention was Schoolgirl Lesbians. (lucky for you I didn’t do a TvTropes Link)
Here’s an account of Sparky’s real character from here:
He was no innocent.
If you want it it TVTropes terms, I think they were Heterosexual Life Partners.
Also, remember that Peppermint Patty has a crush on Charlie Brown, not on Marcie. Unrequited love does not a couple make.
Patty had a crush on Chuck, but Marcie also had a crush on Charles. It’s a love triangle.
But he was at the berginning of his career. In Backstage at the Strips, Mort Walker reprints a “Believe it or Not” cartoon to which a young Sparky contributed. It was a drawing of a dog that “ate nails and screws”. Innocent li’l Sparky didn’t see the problem with that caption.
The earliest Patty in Peanuts wished she were a boy. That along with Marcie calling her sir makes me think PP is FTM.
It would take a real blockhead to mess up a ready-made threesome like that!
- Sigh *, what could have been…AAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGHHH!
Yep. Or a baby butch.
Anyone else remember the Charlotte Braun affair? Mr. Voorhees would be proud. 
Who is “Sparky”?
A nickname given to Schulz as a child by his uncle. He used it his whole life.
I guess I’m innocent because I don’t see the problem with that caption. Can you explain?
Think “Eats Shoots and Leaves.”
As a young kid I always thought PP was a boy, it always confused me when she try to kiss CB.
ate (nails and screws) vs (ate nails) and screws
Charles is in hopeless love with the Little RedHeaded Girl. It’s a quadrangle. Maybe a tetrahedron.
Pig Pen was dating Marcie? When did that happen?
BTW: tanstaafl and TruCelt have it straight.