Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for January 21, 2015

Decisions, decisions: do I want a root beer or a lemonade?

no need to decide, just get a bone

No psychiatric booth yet …

Pretty soon the decision will drive you mad, creating a market for psychiatric help. Capitalization people!!

When my brother and I had a lemonade stand, we used his Lite-Bright as a sign.

@K.C., what a (oof!) bright idea! Sorry, couldn’t stop the pun, but that was clever advertising on your part.

I guess Shermy was Snoopy’s root beer supplier. ;)

This outdoor mall has it all.

Snoopy should sale hugs =)

Roll me a bone Snoopy.

Snoopy may have the best business plan.1. Buy a bone.2. What do you do with a bone? Give it to a dog of course.3. What does the dog do with the bone? In this case, he probably sells it again.

And soon there will be forty feet of different hair shampoos on display…

Snoopy needs the money so he can buy a root beer. Maybe Shermy will swap a root beer for a bone.

This was a fun type of the gag-a-day comic strip. Schulz was still finding his way at the time—the personalities of his characters would come much later.

Interesting though that even this early in the strip Snoopy had very non-canine tendencies. I mean what self respecting dog would sell his bones? And who wrote that sign for him?

What? No bagels?

I take the flowers.

Snoopy’s first foray into not being just a dog.

There be somewhere to take your dog! (I’ve been working on me pirate talk :) )