Sunday, March 6, 1955: Modern times demand a modern blanket

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A simple but effective Sunday strip.  Linus hasn't yet developed loyalty towards a specific blanket, I note.  Snoopy uses speech bubbles in his recent rhinocerous imagination sequence, so this is not yet indicative that Linus is speaking in full English yet.

Sunday, March 14, 1954: Snowball Fail

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Charlie Brown doesn't have it in him to make a really evil face, such that Calvin could or, closer to home, Lucy of a few years from now.  There is sort of that aspect of Calvin picking on Susie here, although it's usually more of an outside source that gives him his comeuppance.

Chagrimace!

February 20, 1954: Violet's short attention span

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Violet throws Charlie Brown out rather often.  She forgets why she was mad at him fairly often too.

January 26-28, 1954: Cold weather gear

January 26, 1954:

January 27, 1954:

January 28, 1954:

The first two strips here are reminiscent of the bits from A Christmas Story where Ralphie's brother Randy is so over-covered with coats and scarves he can't put his arms down, or get up once knocked over.  I suppose that kids aren't bundled up so well with heat-preservers these days.  Of course Schulz grew up in, and at the time was living in, Minnesota, which is rather infamous for its harsh winters.

The third strip is a demonstration of Snoopy's boundless enthusiasm, which I think became less apparent in the final years of the strip.  Shermy is in the first panel mostly to give context to the object Snoopy is chasing; hockey pucks don't real well if they just show up unheralded.  I think the last panel is a rare design misstep on Schulz's part; the motion lines produced by Snoopy look to more like a solid object than an effect of the dog's motion.