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Charles M. Schulz
Peanuts * January 4, 1980
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In the first strip, Schulz achieves a remarkable degree of expressiveness by employing what are essentially two commas for Snoopy's eyes. In the second strip, the half circles that surround Lucy's eyes aid in the depiction of some very fierce emotion in the first and second panels. When Lucy was first introduced Schulz drew her with perfectly round, large eyes but soon recognized the flaw in that design. He kept the half circle around her eyes, however, and that became the standard for all the Van Pelt children: Lucy, Linus, and Rerun. |