Week Three: The Comic Strip

Peanuts

Original Design of Charlie Brown

Modern design of Charlie Brown

For this week I read the original Peanuts comic from the 1950's by Charles Schulz. The Peanuts comics of the early days was surprising as I wasn't expecting the art-styles/designs of the character to be different from what I have read since I was under the impression that that the designs and art-styles are usually consistent. Though this change from the early day of peanuts to know, although could be due to Charles himself evolving his art. At first the designs were very simplistic derpy looking characters. We don't see the modern representation of the Peanuts characters until about 4-5 years later. Remarkably though the humor has remained relatively the same throughout it entire run.