These strips might be slightly out of order or not match up with their dates due to a problem with my blogging client. July 18: Another str...

Lucy's loud voice is again reinforced as a character trait. But we also get some of the playful and energetic Snoopy of the classic er...

June 6, 1955 A running theme in Peanuts in the early days is Charlie Brown being dismayed at some obviously false notion one of his friends...

Read this strip at gocomics.com . Lucy continues her develop into the strip's primary villain. We haven't had a huge amount of Snoop...

1. As Lucy gets angrier, she shifts from speaking in normal letters, to serif'd letters, to thick letters.  That's some temper she...

Read this strip at gocomics.com . This is one of my favorite Peanuts strips of all time.  I actually didn't know that it showed up so ea...

February 21 Schroeder gets out of the house some.  Playing ice hockey on a frozen pond is sort of a winter analogue for vacant lot baseball....

Read this strip at gocomics.com . When Lucy gives you rubber, Linus makes rubber-ade. And this is full-bore Lucy here, in full Hate Mode. ...

Read this strip at gocomics.com . This is a momentous strip: it marks the first appearance of imposing, wrathful Lucy. While all the Peanut...

October 4 Back then, often movies would show first in big cities, and then move into suburb theaters if they were popular enough. It's ...

It's another full week post. What do you guys think about this format? I don't think I'm going to do all posts like this, but ...

April 1 : The second panel here is a particular favorite of mine.  Lucy is weighing her options. This may be the first direct instanc...

Lucy goes on a glorious campaign of destruction here.  It's the closest she's yet gotten to her malevolent destiny. I think maybe...

Read this strip at gocomics.com. This strip is a reprise of the joke from Sunday, 2/15/53 .  In that earlier strip, Lucy doesn't seem...

If you wonder where the point was that Lucy went from being an innocent little girl to Cthulhu in a dress, well, there is no exact point. ...

This is the second strip in which Lucy demonstrates her great capacity for malice, after the "Don't murder me Charlie Brown"...

Lucy's arm, and the fist at the end of it, becomes quite a terror in the years to come.

Blogger sometimes takes posts I've set to publish and makes them drafts instead, which once in a while results in strips getting overloo...

A rather different context for the chase/turnabout formula. This is a solid step along the way to Lucy's later personality. Her expr...

Aww, isn't she cute? Little did anyone, least of all Schulz himself, know that with the introduction of that (literally) wide-eyed li...