Who is Peggy Jean ?
Newton Wai
I was reading the strip from 11th July 1999 in the official
Peanuts Home Page (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/), and in
that strip, there was a girl named Peggy Jean whom Charlie Brown seems to
know. Has she appeared in previous strips, and if yes, who is she ?
Thanks for your attention.
Roberta
12/13. Charlie Brown wanted to buy her gloves to cover her pretty hands so
they wouldnt get cold. But alas, poor Charlie Brown didnt have enough money
to buy her gloves. So he sold his ENTIRE comic book collection and bought
the gloves. BUT Peggy Jean was in the store and her mother had already
bought her a pair of gloves. So Charlie Brown gave them to to the next best
person--Snoopy of course! :)
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Dave Hardenbrook
w...@wald.ucdavis.edu says...
Chuck met her at summer camp and they were an item for a while and it
looked like she would be Nirvanah Crane to Chuck's Arnie Rimmer ( that
was for Red Dwarf fans in this newsgroup :) )...until the July 11 1999
strip.
I'm still mad that these new books of recent strips "bleep over" (to
quote Linus) the magic year that Chuck met Peggy Jean *and* hit a home
run!
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-- Dave
nos...@nospam.mit.edu
This is accurate, but there's more to the story than this.
Charlie Brown first met Peggy Jean in 1990. They met at camp and it was
love at first sight---for CB at least. He was so nervous that he introduced
himself as "Brownie Charles." Peggy Jean was very nice to him and told him
all kinds of sweet things, and even kissed him. (When Charlie Brown
reported the kiss over the phone to what he thought was Linus, the response
was, "What is this, an obscene phone call?" Turns out Lucy had picked up
the phone instead.) Then camp ended and the relationship kind of petered
out. The 1997 strips you mention are reprints of strips from Dec. 1990,
when Charlie Brown and Peggy Jean unexpectedly ran into each other again.
The Peggy Jean strips are unfortunately difficult to get a hold of. The
back cover of _Make_Way_for_the_King_of_the_Jungle_ claims to have them
but doesn't; they stop just short. The next reprint book, _Now_That's_
_Profound,_Charlie_Brown_, starts in 1991 and therefore skips over the
1990 Peggy Jean strips. They are reprinted in some overseas books, such
as the bilingual books from Taiwan that I mentioned here a while ago, but
these aren't readily available in the U.S.
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dav...@mindspring.com (Dave Hardenbrook) wrote:
I can understand that. I feel exactly the same way.
I'm still getting the impression that either Schulz (or God knows who)
doesn't want a certain fragment of PEANUTS reproduced, probably because he
found fault with it or something (much like how he finds fault with his early
years). There *always* has to be a limitation to what can and cannot make it
to books. This age-old stalling really scares me, because it's sad to compare
PEANUTS to CALVIN & HOBBES and GARFIELD, where EVERY strip ever made turns up
in the books IN ORDER! You're not missing anything! But with PEANUTS, I just
don't know what's going on anymore . . .
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Chris Lee
>>quote Linus) the magic year that Chuck met Peggy Jean *and* hit a home
>>run!
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> I can understand that. I feel exactly the same way.
>
> I'm still getting the impression that either Schulz (or God knows who)
>doesn't want a certain fragment of PEANUTS reproduced, probably because he
>found fault with it or something (much like how he finds fault with his early
>years). There *always* has to be a limitation to what can and cannot make it
>to books. This age-old stalling really scares me, because it's sad to
>compare
>PEANUTS to CALVIN & HOBBES and GARFIELD, where EVERY strip ever made turns up
>in the books IN ORDER! You're not missing anything! But with PEANUTS, I
>just
>don't know what's going on anymore . . .
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>John Cassidy
You've got to remember that Peanuts books have almost always had problems with
organization. It wasn't until the mid-60s that strips were put in chronological
order, and Sundays were included with dailies rather than being segregated to
their own books. And it wasn't 'til the 80s that the dates were included in the
reprints (and even then Andrews & McMeel didn't include them in their books).
And Peanuts isn't the only strip to selectively reprint. In the FAQs on the
Doonesbury site Garry Trudeau admits that over the years anywhere from 5 to 15%
of his strips have been left unreproduced, in order to "eliminate from the
public record all traces of his most cringeworthy work."
As for the missing Peggy Jean strips, I would chalk that up to publisher error.
That phantom blurb on the back cover of "...King of The Jungle" was probably
because the early test printing did include the strips, but they probably got
cut due to space considerations. When it came to put the book on the market, no
one bothered to check to make sure those strips were in there. When Harper took
over the publishing rights, they decided to start the first book at 1/1/91, not
knowing (or caring) that there was a 6 month gap from the last book. Who knows?
Maybe this upcoming anniversary book will include some Peggy Jean strips.
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Brian
Dave Hardenbrook wrote:
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> In article <Pine.OSF.4.05.990718...@yule.ucdavis.edu>,
> w...@wald.ucdavis.edu says...
> > I was reading the strip from 11th July 1999 in the official
> > Peanuts Home Page (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/), and in
> > that strip, there was a girl named Peggy Jean whom Charlie Brown seems to
> > know. Has she appeared in previous strips, and if yes, who is she ?
>
> Chuck met her at summer camp and they were an item for a while and it
> looked like she would be Nirvanah Crane to Chuck's Arnie Rimmer ( that
> was for Red Dwarf fans in this newsgroup :) )...until the July 11 1999
> strip.
>
> I'm still mad that these new books of recent strips "bleep over" (to
> quote Linus) the magic year that Chuck met Peggy Jean *and* hit a home
> run!
> --
>
> -- Dave
Roberta
I guess you are right. I had forgotten that the strips at the end of 1997
were reprints as Charles Shultz was on his first vacation and they were re
runing some of the earlier strips. Oh well. I at least tried. :) Roberta
Rik en Maltie
sweeheart, and called him Brownie charles.
Newton Wai heeft geschreven in bericht ...
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> I was reading the strip from 11th July 1999 in the official
>Peanuts Home Page (http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/), and in
>that strip, there was a girl named Peggy Jean whom Charlie Brown seems to
>know. Has she appeared in previous strips, and if yes, who is she ?
>
> Thanks for your attention.
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Nat Gertler
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> This age-old stalling really scares me, because it's sad to compare
> PEANUTS to CALVIN & HOBBES and GARFIELD, where EVERY strip ever made turns up
> in the books IN ORDER!
Actually, there is one C&H strip that didn't make it into the books.
The strip that ran on the strip's first Thanksgiving, which was one
of the first batch of strips sent in with the proposal. That was one
of the Thanksgivings that the cartoonists were uniting to do strips
about hunger, and a book collection of those strips was issued.
Since Watterson had not originally done a hunger-oriented strip,
he created one specifically for that book... and that strip, not
the one actually published on Thanksgiving, is the one that shows
up in the C&H reprint books.