Even though I wouldn't recommend their attitudes half the time, there are lots of laughs and smiles here.

snoooopyyyy!!!!!!

é muito gostoso ler o começo do que virou o peanuts. tanto no quesito desenho, que ainda é um pouco mais tortinho e achatado do que o que ficamos acostumados hoje em dia, quanto no quesito história e personagens. o snoopy ainda é um cachorrinho de fato, mas já começa a apresentar traços mais "humanos", é a primeira vez que ele vira abutre (!!!!!) e ele já tem pensamentos, mas ainda não se comunica com ninguém.
dá mt dó de como o charlie brown é odiado, o bullying nos eua lá no alto desde sempre né. mas é mt gostoso que são todos crianças mesmo. é muito bobo, é um pouco malvado, é bem engraçado.
eu AMEI a construção das relações entre os personagens. minhas preferidas foram a lucy e o linus, que são extremamente irmã mais velha e irmão mais novo, é perfeito. também curti muito a evolução da lucy achando o snoopy meio bobo, mas eles ficando amigos com ela fazendo coceira nele e depois se encontrando pra dançar!!! são as minhas tirinhas preferidas!!!! e o snoopy tentando pegar o cobertor do linus também é delicioso.
é obviamente um quadrinho bem estadunidense. o tanto que eles ligam pra baseball, um esporte que nem existe, é meio fascinante. e tem umas coisas meio curiosas da cultura estadunidense do fim dos anos 50, que inclusive dá pra sentir como desafio na tradução. mas tudo bem também, né, os eua infelizmente são um país que existe...
enfim, a lucy é absolutamente perfeita, eu a amo. queria continuar lendo na ordem pra acompanhar o desenrolar das personalidades e relações. também fico me perguntando se a lucy perderia seu posto de primeira humana no meu coração pra patty pimentinha, mas daí teria que pular uns 15 anos. de qualquer forma, a família van pelt brilha nessas tirinhas. mas o astro é e sempre será o snoopy.

tl;dr: SNOOOOOOOOOPPYYYYYYY

Snoopy is going through some weird growing pains and looks super odd at several points in this one, like he's been run over or something.

Also, first instances of pig-pen are so grim, he looks like a biblical plague as portrayed by a small child.

Also also there are occasional instances of nightmare fuel, such as:

на четвертий рік існування комікси про чарлі брауна стають візуально ближчими до тих зовсім сучасних і впізнавано філософськими. вони здебільшого не смішні – але часто абсолютно дотепні.

What is there left to say about Peanuts? Not a whole lot, so Ill stick to the basics: Many years ago, an insanely talented man named Charles Schulz created a comic strip about a group of children. It was alternately funny, charming, melancholy and whimsical. Mostly, it just reminded us how human we all are and how connected humanity truly is.

This book collects some of Schulzs earliest Peanuts strips. Pig-Pen makes his debut. Linus clings to his security blanket for the first time. Charlie Browns kite misadventures begin. Lucy Van Pelts five-decade-long crush on Schroeder is born in these pages. But this is more than comics history. Its Americana history. The strip doesn't hit its high point for another year or two, but its still a cut above most other daily strips (including modern ones). The gags are mostly good (although many of them are still being recycled today), and Schulz's art is very crisp. Charlie Browns heartbreak and disappointment is still only occasional at this point. He'll soon by the most recognized loser in American literary history, but he gets a few licks and pokes of his own in during these early cartoons. (And after seeing the poor kid suffer for so many decades, I take some small pleasure in seeing him give as good as he gets.)

The most bizarre aspect of seeing such early Peanuts strips is seeing how innocent and nave the young Lucy Van Pelt was when she started her cartoon career. Violet and Patty (not Peppermint Patty, the other one) are Charlie Brown's primary tormentors, while the most recognized harasser, Lucy, mostly frustrates Charlie Brown with her constant questions, youth (she and Linus are the only members of the Peanuts gang who seem to have aged, at least a few years, over the strips 50-year reign), and persistence.

Also, to give proper credit, Seth and the Fantagraphics crew do a great job putting these volumes together. It's a gorgeous book, although I still wish that the Sunday strips were in color as Schulz intended them to be.

Du génie.

The characters are still evolving into their famous incarnations. Charlie Brown is less of a prankster. Snoopy now “talk-thinks” at times; his facial expressions are priceless. Lucy has become a big loud presence and it’s no wonder her brother, the brilliant (though silent) baby Linus, starts to use a security blanket by volume’s end. Also near the book's end, Pig-Pen is introduced for the first time, as is a character named Charlotte Braun.

I’d wondered at the quality of a very few of the strips near the end and that’s explained in a publisher’s note at the back of the book. A number of these early strips, published in only a few newspapers originally, were never saved properly or reprinted. Most newspapers archive on microfilm only and that’s useless for graphic reproduction. Consequently, finding and restoring the early strips took some time and lots of work, and are a Peanuts-lovers’ dream.