Peanuts by Charles Schulz for June 20, 2019

good to have all that off your chest, Peppermint Patty?

Spirits up, Patty! There will always be a tomorrow and more people to know and love.

Poor Patty. I want to cry too.

God loves you, Patty! Everyone of us is special.

Good thing Linus got his blanket back…

Legendary strip, well and truly. I see it get reposted a lot as an example of peak Peanuts, and Peppermint Patty at her most emotionally real. Had the pleasure to see with my eyes the original ink of this strip at an exhibition earlier this year. https://i.redd.it/9srlqlx6f1a21.jpg

On the other hand, CB is completely intimidated by her but he spends time with you.

Patty … go by a copy of Travis Tritt’s ode “Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares”. Either that, or go to an orphanage and see how tough some kids’ lives are.

Don’t cry, Patty. There’s always Marcie. You already got the Earth Shoes…

Existential crisis in 3…2…..1

Even though it’s 1972 and she’s a comic character: PP – no one is perfect… the Little Red-Haired Girl is full of imperfections too… and if Charlie Brown ever had that relationship with her, he’d see all of them up close… ;-)

I was always attracted to the pretty girls; I stayed with the girls that I found out that I liked: confident, intelligent and with a good sense of humor.

I suffer from a disorder that I think a lot of men have. The more I like a woman, the better looking she gets. It’s been that way since day one.

On lesson every person (regardless of age, but particularity in the child, tween, teen years) is not to let other people define who you should be. You are a one-of-a-kind masterpiece; literally a work of a lifetime.

Patty, you might not appreciate this, but it may be better to have Chuck as a loyal friend (as I think he is) than a romantic interest. In some cases it is a mistake to let the romance get in the way of the friendship.

In my life, I’ve had few girlfriends and many girl friends.

Awww, Patty. I can feel her pain. I was Not a pretty child. Give it time Patty, and you will blossom.

It’s so easy for an individual to be conscious of all the ways he or she thinks they fall short and completely overlook all of the good qualities they have.

Mr. Rogers likes you just the way you are

Thank you so much, Charles Schulz, for this strip that shows the sensitivities behind this character who had been long taken to be brash and insensitive herself. In other words, when a kid’s a kid, there aren’t yet many ways in which to stand out from the other kids but the toys you have (or don’t), the smarts you have (or don’t), or the looks you have (or don’t). (For anyone thinking of piping up that what I’ve listed here don’t change at all when you’ve grown up, there are so many different gradations within each of these that hadn’t by then been explored or explained about how girls got to be the ways they were.)

So she’s got the same insecurities as CB. That’s the reason he can’t approach the little red haired girl.

Poor precious Peppermint Patty…

This is actually pretty tragic.

Pretty good grief

The biggest and most destructive lie on the planet is that “Everyone is special”. The vast majority of us are just average and we know it but that is just fine. We should be teaching kids that being yourself, no matter what that may be, is not a barrier to love or happiness.

I’ve actually known a good number of “ugly duckings” that grew up to be quite beautiful.

I always thought Peppermint Patty was cute.

It’s the unattainable ones that always are the most disappointing.

If Charlie Brown is passing over Peppermint Patty for The Little Red-Haired Girl, he’s a sick kid.

The day I realized that this ugly duckling would never be a swan was incredibly liberating. Expectations weigh us down. It’s better to find our truer self and work from there.

The “extreme makeover” mentality needs an extreme makeover. To me the two essential qualities of a beautiful face are kindness and intelligence. The size and shape of the nose? Split ends? Superficial; unrelated to character and substance. You can keep your Paris Hiltons and Britney Spears’s and however many Kardashians there might be cluttering up the vacuous realm of “celebrity.”

❛Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.❜—Abraham Lincoln

Marci is always waiting in the wings, Sir.

It’s OK Patty, there are plenty of big-nosed split-ended funny-looking fish in the sea.

I know Schulz was the king of angst, but this is pretty deep, even for him…

Dangit Sparky, why did you have to crush our hearts like this in the family newspaper?

On the other hand – I had a friend who seemed to have it all – the looks, perfect blonde hair, a Barbie-doll figure. But she had problems, too. Men didn’t listen to her; they were too busy looking and trying to grope. Women, in the throes of body envy, shied from her. It made her lonely, but for all that, she never acted privileged, or judgmental. Beneath her beauty, she had the kindest of hearts.

I think she’s cute- look at those freckles!!

He touched your hand Patty…..

You always stay away from your crush.

awwww!

This has to be the saddest Peanuts installment I’ve ever read. For some reason I missed its earlier runs. Hopefully there’s an upbeat resolution tomorrow.

And so, how was that Charlie’s fault?

It’s things like this which work so much better because the Little Red-Haired Girl is an unseen character, and apparently uninterested in Charlie Brown.

Because there’s nothing better than being “loved” because you’re beautiful