Read this strip at gocomics.com . This strip sets a couple of precedents all by itself. First, for a while now, there have been kind of two ...

Read this strip at gocomics.com. In those days, comic artists would draw all four panels of a strip, even if nothing much changes between...

I love the second panel for this one. Simultaneously delicious and disturbing. Lucy's confused copying of Patty and Violet, to me, ...

Snoopy moves ever closer to developing real thought bubbles. His dissatisfaction with his dogly lot in life in increasing, too. Snoopy...

I like it whenever Schulz draws that bust of Beethoven, for how it breaks the art style, but more interestingly than that.... Take a loo...

The main reason this one is here is because it is the first strip appearance of the famous Peanuts logo in the first panel. Later on it...

I think Patty is fully due that Scribble Of Ire in the last panel.

Sure it's mostly sentimental instead of funny, but imagine how long it must have taken Charles Schulz to render the typeface in the four...

Snoopy can't talk. He hasn't even gotten thought balloons yet. So, how does Charlie Brown know that Snoopy always wanted to live i...

This one's funny too.

The kids' love of comic books is a staple of the early years of the strip. Part of this may be due to the fact that Universal Features ...

Panel two has one of the most detailed backgrounds seen so far. Just look at it. It's almost un-Peanuts-like.