Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 04, 1966
March 03, 1966
March 05, 1966
Transcript:
Snoopy lies on the doghouse with a birds nest resting on his stomach. He thinks, "How do things like this happen to me?"<BR><BR> Snoopy thinks, "I'm too easy going, that's why! I should have said something as soon as that stupid bird started to build this nest . . ."<BR><BR> Snoopy thinks, "The next thing you know there'll be . . ."<BR><BR> Two baby birds poke their heads up from the nest and Snoopy thinks, "I knew it!!"<BR><BR>
DanWolfie almost 7 years ago
Woodstock hatches!
RazorT over 6 years ago
WOODSTOCK!
PatrickASL over 4 years ago
Welcome to the strip, Woodstock!
zodal over 2 years ago
This is pre-Woodstock. The real Woodstock appears one year later
The-Mage over 1 year ago
I don’t think we can be positive as to if this is actually Woodstock or not. Every source I have found was written after Schulz’s passing. Wikipedia is based on a book 17 years after he passed, and the Peanuts.com page didn’t exist until 2020. Both of these list April 4th, 1967 as the first appearance.
Fandom Wiki lists March 4, 1966, as the first appearance of Woodstock but doesn’t list any source.
My personal belief is that this looks like the same bird as next year, and flies the same way. Prior to this, no birds drawn by Schulz looked like this, including the one that built the nest. So I believe this is Woodstock, and he simply came back to the person/dog who “raised” him.
I also think it would be strange that this bird appears in 15 stips from March 3rd to May 22, then a completely different bird who looks and flies the same would suddenly appear less than a year later.
If somebody finds a source from Schulz, please link it here.
FrostbiteFalls 6 months ago
In at least one interview (I couldn’t give the exact source), Schulz said that this is the story arc where Woodstock first appeared, with him being one of the baby birds, continuing with one of them returning and continuing to hang around, until Snoopy came to regard him as his “friend of friends”, along the way working as Snoopy’s caretaker or secretary and finally being given a name around 1970.
benjaminlclark 23 days ago
Schulz describes this as Woodstock’s introduction in an essay he wrote for TV Guide, published February 23, 1980