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Charles M. Schulz
Peanuts * December 22, 1958
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Writing letters to Santa is one of children's most cherished holiday traditions and it is crucial to the enterprise to adopt just the right tone. However, in Peanuts, as in life, we sometimes lose track of our good intentions, as Charlie Brown did in the strip from 1954 . And it appears that even Linus, usually the most sincere of the Peanuts characters, is trying to tug at Santa's heart strings just a little in the daily created four years later.
Many times Schulz captures the essence of childhood in Peanuts. In these strips, Charlie Brown's tongue protrudes from his mouth as he grapples with the effort of writing to Santa. During the 1950s and 1960s, Schulz was raising his five children which provided numerous opportunities to observe children's behavior and emotions firsthand. |