Look, Schulz had a very large cast of characters by comic strip standards. If he felt he'd exhausted a character's potential (which I think was what really happened in these cases), he wouldn't use them again. I seriously cannot picture him wielding a blood-soaked axe by any means...
Me either, but I think it fit with the month. He is one of the great innovators of the medium and created so much joy. On a personal note, my wife won his college cartooning award when we were undergraduates. We didn't get to meet him, but he said tremendously kind things about my wife's work and we got a great trip because of it. I mean, the cartoon lasted for 50 years for a reason and I'm glad it remained only his.
Look, Schulz had a very large cast of characters by comic strip standards. If he felt he'd exhausted a character's potential (which I think was what really happened in these cases), he wouldn't use them again. I seriously cannot picture him wielding a blood-soaked axe by any means...
Me either, but I think it fit with the month. He is one of the great innovators of the medium and created so much joy. On a personal note, my wife won his college cartooning award when we were undergraduates. We didn't get to meet him, but he said tremendously kind things about my wife's work and we got a great trip because of it. I mean, the cartoon lasted for 50 years for a reason and I'm glad it remained only his.