Charlie Brown with a Peanuts comic strip behind him.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Peanuts creator Charles Schulz was notoriously not a fan of overtly politicized humor, leading him to develop a profound distaste for his strip's contemporary, Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. Trudeau's strip was – in more ways than one – the polar opposite of Peanuts.
Related The Very First PEANUTS Comic Set The Saddest Part of Charlie Brown’s Character in Stone Charlie Brown's appearance in the very first Peanuts strip may have been an inauspicious start, but it heralded everything to come for the character. In the fall of 1970, as Schulz celebrated the anniversary of Peanuts , a young artist named Gary Trudeau launched Doonesbury . A comic strip filled with unrepentant, cold sarcasm, it became the voice of a new, more openly political generation in the same way Peanuts once had spoken to the alienated and discontented — but genial – 1950s.
According to Ball, Charles Schulz specifically disliked Doonesbury, but this was undergirded by a more abstract negative attitude toward political humor. Schulz opinion was not shared by critics in the 1970s, however; just five years into its publication, Doonesbury was awarded the Pulitzer Prive for Editorial Cartooning for its social critique. That said, fifty years later, Doonesbury is not fixed in the public consciousness to any degree resembling the enduring popularity of Peanuts.
Born in 1948, Garry Trudeau was just two years old when Peanuts entered publication. By the time Doonesbury began appearing in newspapers, Peanuts had been a staple of the comic section for two decades. For the remainder of the 20th century, they coexisted; in a sense, the two can be looked at as the two extreme poles of the comic strip continuum.
Charles Schulz Couldn't Avoid Dating His Comic Completely A Subtle Reflection Of Its Time Close The debate about whether art should strive to be timeless, or if it should capture the moment of its creation, remains as urgent as ever. As it turns out, Doonesbury and Peanuts are two perfect proxies in that battle of artistic perspectives.
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