Friday, March 20, 2009

October 21, 1950: Shermy loses his hand

Peanuts
1. In the first panel, look at where Shermy's hand meets Patty's.  It's drawn just cut off where the two should meet, with a gap defining the separation between the two.  In the last panel it's more obviously a case of Patty's hand overlapping Shermy's.  Schulz is still playing around with the format.  It looks like the cut-off hand thing was viewed as a failed experiment because succeeding strips don't do this.
2. Again, what is up with Snoopy and that flower?  Is his head a planter?
3. A romance between Shermy and Patty had been implied in an earlier strip, and here it's developed a little more.

4 comments:

  1. If you look reaaaally closely, it looks like Snoopy's holding the flower with his ear.

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  2. I thought the flower was stuck through Snoopy's collar -- you can see it sticking out from the bottom edge. But on further inspection I think Laura may be right -- his ear looks like it's curving in a little more in the last panel.

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  3. I think it's both stuck on his ear AND in his collar, upon closer examination.

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  4. If you notice his hand wasn't cut off in the fourth panel so maybe Schulz drew that as a sight gag and then developed the rest of the strip.

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