A long-standing question for comic strip artists is, if the joke is wholly verbal, what do the characters do while they talk? In this one, they walk up and down stairs, stairs that seem to exist to go nowhere. Much later, Schulz will use the hang-out wall for this. Bill Watterson, who has obviously read a lot of classic Peanuts, would adapt this into Calvin and Hobbes' wonderful sledding sequences.
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