Word: schulz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME'S reporters talked to comic-strip artists, psychologists, educators and others who take the comics fairly seriously, seeking to find out what was afoot in the land of the funnies. The final choice for cover treatment fell to Charles Schulz's Peanuts, which stands out among the newer strips as probably the funniest and certainly the most existential...
...Schulz, a 20-year TIME subscriber, declared himself awed by the choice, but overcame his awe sufficiently to draw for the cover the group portrait of his characters. He allows, that he caught Charlie in one of his rare happy moments-delighted no doubt that he finally made...
...Charlie Brown's "good grief!" an exclamation of fundamental Angst? Does Linus' blanket have a deep symbolic meaning? Such questions may sound like ways to take the fun out of Charles Schulz's famous comic strip Peanuts. But Robert L. Short, 32, a graduate student at the University of Chicago Divinity School, argues not only amusingly but also convincingly that Peanuts indeed has intentional theological significance...
Another expression of man's sinfulness is the inability of Schulz's characters to change for the better: fuss-budgety Lucy is destined to grow from "the crabby little girl of today" to "the crabby old woman of tomorrow"; "good ol' wishy-washy" Charlie Brown will be forever friendless, always the losing pitcher in 184-to-O baseball games. Trapped by what Cardinal Newman called "some terrible aboriginal calamity," Schulz's characters never seem able to keep up with the world. As Linus puts it: "How can you do 'new math' problems with...
...according to St. Paul, is worshiping any god but God. In Schulz's "child's garden of reverses," says Short, false idols are plentiful, and the wages of sin are paid in terms of an "emotional clobbering." Thus Linus' beloved blanket-"only one yard of outing flannel stands between me and a nervous breakdown" -is constantly threatened by the dog Snoopy or the visiting grandmother who disapproves of such habits (and drinks 32 cups of coffee a day). Lucy's love for Schroeder goes unrequited; the heart of the little blond pianist belongs only to Beethoven...