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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...
Religion, psychiatry, education-indeed all the complexities of the modern world-seem more amusing than menacing when they are seen through the clear, uncompromising eyes of the comic-strip kids from Peanuts. The wry and wistful characters created by Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz have all but come to life for readers in the U.S. and abroad as they demonstrate daily and Sunday an engaging wisdom beyond their years, a simplistic yet somehow impressive understanding of the assorted problems that perplex their elders...
...still for a sermon readily devour the sermon-like cartoons. Some 60 million people follow the strip in 700 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada and 71 abroad. Peanuts is translated into a dozen languages, from Danish (in which the title becomes Little Radishes) to Spanish to Japanese. Schulz's theology has even merited a solemn book, The Gospel According to Peanuts, in which Divinity Student Robert Short has found the strip filled with profound Christian understanding (TIME...
Otherwise, Schulz leads just the sort of life his readers would suspect. His favorite hobby is golf. He attends the annual Bing Crosby Invitational tournament, aspires some day to play with Sam Snead: "I keep using his name in the strip, hoping that he will write to me. But he never does." Neither he nor Joyce drinks, smokes or swears. Like his creation Charlie Brown, who never uses an expletive stronger than "Good grief!" Schulz insists: "I've never used a cuss word in my life. I don't even like ugly words like stink or fink. Perhaps...