Re: Snoopy's Speaking Balloon

Tim Chow <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Jun 2020 06:19:08 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups alt.comics.peanuts
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday, June 12, 2020 at 2:16:12 PM UTC-4, John wrote:
> My apologies, the Sunday date is January 13, 1963!=C2=A0 Good Grief!
> John
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> On Friday, June 12, 2020 2:01 PM, John wrote:
> > I'm reading through the Complete Peanuts Collection and noticed that=20
> > on the Sunday, January 13, 1962 strip, what has always been a "thought=
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> > balloon" capturing Snoopy's thinking, his first engagement here is=20
> > actually a "talking Balloon"!=C2=A0 I wonder if this was an error on th=
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> > artist's part.=C2=A0 Has anyone noticed this on this day's strip or=20
> > anywhere else in the history of Peanuts?

This topic came up recently on rec.arts.comics.strips:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.comics.strips/DXVZ3PBDzwM/wuw2e_5M=
DgAJ

I hadn't noticed the January 13, 1963 strip before...good catch!
But I suspect that this was an error on Schulz's part.

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Tim Chow