Why do people like Peanuts (comic strip)?

Because of some of these things that Charlie Brown says: "In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back." "I've developed a new philosophy . . . I only dread one day at a time." "Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love." "Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Why me? read more

Peanuts did not look like the comic strips that had preceded it From the very beginning, Peanuts had an elegiac quality. It made Americans pine for an earlier, more innocent time that had never actually existed. read more

Peanuts was the first comic strip to treat children as a subject rather than an object being commented upon by the adults in the strip. Instead of having the comic strip's adults explain the joke or provide a punchline, the strip requires audience interpretation of what's happening within it in order to be effective. read more