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There was an entire category of Snoopy on Jeopardy today and none of the contestants knew who Joe Cool was.
FYI: If you're wondering what the best Joe Cool strip was, it's this one.
This one always used to make me laugh as well.
Joe Cool debuted around the time Schulz's own children went to college, in the late 60s/early 70s, around the time many Baby Boomers were at university.
I'd always assumed Joe Cool was a satire on some of the characters Schulz must have seen hanging around college campuses at that time. After his kids graduate, Joe Cool becomes much less prevalent in the strip.
Here's one of the weirdest strips in Peanuts--the Joe Cool character of the 70s had morphed into Joe Grunge by the 90s. Sadly, this is the only appearance of Joe Grunge.
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It's Charles Schulz's birthday, and at the risk of turning my Twitter into nothing but Peanuts' strips, I want to touch briefly on how extraordinary it was at the time for the main character to talk so openly about depression.
Charlie Brown began speaking freely about his depression just a few years into the strip, roughly the late 50s and early 60s. It was a theme that ran particularly strong up until the mid 70s.
The other characters recognize it in him, sometimes trying to offer him advice, and sometimes not exactly knowing how to handle his open anguish.
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Charles Schulz had a specific tradition every Veterans Day--he'd draw a strip about Snoopy, usually decked out in a non-WWI Flying Ace uniform, going over to cartoonist Bill Mauldin's house for some root beers.
Mauldin was a cartooning sensation during WWII, but by the time I was growing up, I'd never even heard of him. I think Schulz knew that--look at this one, where Linus basically acts as an interpreter for the audience.
This particular strip, for example, was incomprehensible to me as a kid. I'd never seen Mauldin's work, so the Willie and Joe punchline didn't land.
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