Peanuts.

I have been collecting the Complete Peanuts series, collecting all of Charles Schulz's strips over several years. A highly recommended and ambitious project... only four volumes have been released so far, so there is still time to catch up! I was amazed reading these earliest strips not only how genuinely funny much of the material was right from the beginning, but at the sharp (and subtle) social commentary present throughout. These wise-beyond-their-years kids are definitely products of the Cold War era. Many references are made to current events or just trends in particular (apparently hi-fi was all the rage in 1957). I look forward to the volumes from the late 60s, when Charlie Brown is drafted to Vietnam.

Anyway, I came across the following strip and found it to be not only funny, but timeless as well. The strip is dated May 2, 1958:




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