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Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Friday, December 2, 2011

February 28-March 5, 1955: Everybody look down, it's all in your mind

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February 28 The phrase "Good Ol' Charlie Brown" was used in the very first Peanuts strip, and continues to show up from time t...
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Sunday, June 19, 2011

April 12-17 1954: A week at once

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Let's do a batch of six this time. April 12, 1954 : This is the first strip of a new running gag, where Charlie Brown reads some...
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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Sunday, September 6, 1953: MAYBE

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This one's awesome for that last panel, and that note of concern you can hear in Charlie Brown's voice. Yes I said hear. I know ...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

August 26, 1953: Charlie Brown the killjoy

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Most of the characters in your standard comic strip have what might be charitably termed "quirks." Usually, comics don't in...
Monday, December 27, 2010

August 24, 1953: Oh Come ON Charlie Brown

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This is at least the second strip with this theme. Currently, Schulz's emphasis is on showing that Charlie Brown's neuroses are p...
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Friday, November 19, 2010

July 7, 1953: Charlie Brown gets it wrong

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A scene from the midpoint of the arc of Charlie Brown's personality, on his way towards the lovable sad sack we all know. I'd say...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

March 19, 1953: That's the Charlie Brown we remember

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I think this is the first strip to really solidify Charlie Brown's emerging personality. That of the depressed everyman, who consider...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Valentine's Day, 1953: The First Time Charlie Brown Got No Valentines

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The Little Red-Haired Girl is some time off, but still, this is the first time Charlie Brown is depressed from getting no valentines. It...
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Sunday, May 9, 2010

October 3, 1952: Depressed kids

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I'm rather glad to see a strip about depression in which Prozac or other pharmaceuticals do not come up.
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Monday, March 8, 2010

July 1, 1952: "I won..."

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Charlie Brown's losing streak in nearly all games has yet to be firmly established, but it's coming. He somehow loses thousands ...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

May 15, 1952: Exit, pursued by girls, stage left

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It's another turnabout/chase strip, although the cause this time isn't Charlie Brown smarting off, or at least not on purpose. W...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

October 3, 1951: Guess I'll go eat some worms

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Charlie Brown takes a big step towards his familiar personality with this strip, in which Snoopy rejects him in order to beg for Patty's...
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

September 22, 1951: Why is everybody always picking on me?

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Stuff like this can't be good for a little round-headed kid's self-esteem. His long-term personality is settling into place. By th...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

Novmber 11, 1950: Kind of calculated, isn't it?

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CB is just so sensitive.
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

November 9, 1950: Frightens me too, bud

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Another premonition of Charlie Brown's later outlook on life. Notice, "another sixty years."  He was nearly ten years short, b...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

October 19, 1950: Depression

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A premonition of Charlie Brown's later personality.  In these early strips he's fairly well-adjusted.  Although there are scraps bet...