Snoopy
Snoopy is a loyal, innocent, imaginative and good-natured beagle who is prone to imagining fantasy lives, including being an author, a college student known as "Joe Cool", an attorney, and a British World War I "flying ace" in the Royal Flying Corps.
Snoopy can be selfish, gluttonous, and lazy at times, and occasionally mocks his owner, Charlie Brown, but on the whole he shows great love, care, and loyalty for his owner (even though he cannot even remember his name and always refers to him as "The Round-Headed Kid"). In the 1990s comic strips, he is obsessed with cookies.
Despite his history of conflicted loyalties, his constant disrespect for Charlie Brown, and his inability to remember his name (he refers to him as "that round-headed kid"), Snoopy has shown both love and loyalty to his owner.
Lucy often mocks and intimidates others, especially Charlie Brown and her own younger brother, Linus. She also has a strong unrequited crush on Schroeder. She can be quite antagonistic, playing the villain role in a number of stories.
Christopher Caldwell has said about the character: "Lucy is no 'fussbudget.' She's an American nightmare, a combination of zero brains, infinite appetites and infinite self-esteem, who is (for that reason) able to run roughshod over all her playmates. At her best, she is the most terrifying character in the history of comics."
While she often bullies and makes fun of characters like Charlie Brown, he still thinks of Lucy as a good friend and deep down, Lucy does have a fondness of him, with a couple of times that she said that "he's full of surprises."
Peppermint Patty is noted for her persistent habit of profoundly misunderstanding basic concepts and ideas that most people would consider obvious, then blindly ignoring any counsel against her latest fixation which leads to ultimately embarrassing situations for which she blames everyone who warned her.
For a long time she seemed unaware that Snoopy was a dog, referring to him as "the funny looking kid with the big nose."
She also thought a school for gifted children meant that she would get free gifts if she enrolled. Likewise she once confused a dog obedience school with a human private school, going so far as to enroll and graduate with the other dogs. It was only later, when she tried to use that diploma to show that she did not have to go to regular school, that she discovered that she had publicly humiliated herself for a meaningless honor. Although initially angry with Snoopy, who had recommended the school to her, she forgave him after she got into a fight with the cat named "World War II" that lived next door to Charlie Brown (having mistaken it for Snoopy in a cat suit) and Snoopy came to her aid.
always insecure about the people he loves when they are not in sight. As a child, I used to be very affectionate to my parents as well.
insecure, has never ending worries and low self esteem, but at the same time gets easily cheered up by little things and surprises that happen spontaneously.
what if dogs could talk? what are they thinking? what's going on in their mind?
"oh, i don't know what i would do without you." (words from the human's perspective)
happiness & joy
Publication Cover Design Reference - Children's Storybooks
As for the design of my publication, I looked at children's storybooks and publications like buffalo zine no3. :Bed Time Stories. I noticed that books for children are often designed with many decorations around the text. Frames, geometrical shapes, non-geometrical shapes, and layers of borders surround classical typefaces like Times New Roman.
Characters Research
Charlie Brown is a meek, kind, innocent, gentle-hearted character with many anxieties, and is depicted as being shy. He is a child possessed with significant determination and hope but often fails due to his insecurities.
Charlie Brown is always referred to by his full name and his usual catchphrase is "good grief".
The character is an example of "the great American un-success story" in that he fails in almost everything he does with an almost continuous streak of bad luck; but still keeps trying with large efforts and work, resulting either in more losses or great victories.
Christopher Caldwell has stated that "What makes Charlie Brown such a rich character is that he's not purely a loser. The self-loathing that causes him so much anguish is decidedly not self-effacement. Charlie Brown is optimistic enough to think he can earn a sense of self-worth, and his willingness to do so by exposing himself to humiliations is the dramatic engine that drives the strip. The greatest of Charlie Brown's virtues is his resilience, which is to say his courage. Charlie Brown is ambitious. He manages the baseball team. He's the pitcher, not a scrub. He may be a loser, but he's, strangely, a leader at the same time. This makes his mood swings truly bipolar in their magnificence: he vacillates not between kinda happy and kinda unhappy, but between being a "hero" and being a "goat"
Sally is the complex little sister of Charlie Brown. On one hand, she is good-hearted, cute, funny, friendly, sweet, and innocent. However, on the other, she can be lazy, naive, slow, dumb, obsessive, greedy, insecure, and sometimes even self-centered and manipulative.
Sally has a "take it easy" approach to life, preferring to slide by while doing as little work as possible. Her favorite pastime is sitting in her beanbag chair watching TV. One summer, Sally actually went to "beanbag camp," which consisted of nothing but lazing around in beanbags, eating snack foods and watching TV; as a result, she became fat and needed to exercise to lose weight. Sally has a good heart and a strong moral sense; like her older brother she is extremely sensitive to the unfairness of life. Charlie Brown usually goes to Lucy in her psychiatric booth when he is feeling depressed, but Sally prefers to confide her troubles to the school building, which is very protective of her and will drop a brick on anyone who does not treat her nicely.
How I Relate to Charlie Brown - Comic Strips Research
Charlie Brown is a character from peanuts that I relate to in many aspects. Just like him, I am insecure, shy, introvert, and sensitive. I have noticed that although he is often bothered by his never-ending worries and insecurities, he is also easily cheered up by little things.
shy & afraid to even approach the things or people he likes due to lack of self confidence. Always regret not taking the risks after missing the chances
always overthinks and daydreams imaginary situations instead of actually making things happen.
Photography Moodboard
Street Photography Capturing the Relationships, Interactions, Humour, and Emotions Between Dogs & Humans.
Woodstock is a bird who quickly becomes Snoopy's best friend. The only non-bird character who can understand Woodstock's speech is Snoopy.
When depicted in the comic strip, his speech is rendered almost entirely in "chicken scratch" marks, with Snoopy's either directly translating or allowing the reader to deduce Woodstock's meaning in the context of Snoopy's replies. Woodstock does make nonverbal noises such as yawns, laughter, sighs and "Z"s or snores to indicate sleep. He also uses punctuation marks like "!" or "??" to indicate emotions.
For all of Woodstock's acumen and talent, he is physically a very poor flyer, which has been a character trait since he first appeared. He flutters around in erratic fashion, often upside down, and frequently crashes into things. He usually manages to get where he wants to go as long as he doesn't have to fly too high. He is prone to beak-bleeds if he goes over 10 feet in the air. Despite his difficulty in flying as a bird, he is skilled in piloting Snoopy as a canine helicopter.
Though young, Linus is very intelligent and very wise and acts as the strip's philosopher and theologian, often quoting the Gospels. Juvenile aspects of his character are also displayed; for example, Linus is almost always depicted holding his blue security blanket—for which he is often mocked by other characters—and often sucks his thumb.
Linus is the only member of his group who believes in the Great Pumpkin, an alternative Santa Claus–like figure who, according to Linus, appears every Halloween arising from the most "sincere" pumpkin patch, bearing gifts. He occasionally temporarily convinces other characters the Great Pumpkin is real, only to stubbornly maintain his faith when they lose theirs.
The only black character in the comics.
In his initial appearances, Franklin seemed confused by all the strange things in Charlie Brown's neighborhood, especially Linus and his obsession with the Great Pumpkin. Schulz said of Franklin's first appearance, July 31, 1968, when he met Charlie Brown at the beach, "They'd never met before because they went to different schools," adding, "but they had fun playing ball so Charlie Brown invited Franklin to visit him."[6] Franklin quoted the Old Testament, and had no anxieties or obsessions. Franklin and Charlie Brown also enjoyed sharing stories about their grandfathers.
In the animated films and television specials, Franklin is shown to be a skilled dancer. He leads Marcie in a waltz in Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, performs an elaborate break-dancing routine in It's Flashbeagle, Charlie Brown, and performs another break-dancing number (while also rapping) in It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown. Franklin also seems to possess some musical ability as he is shown playing instruments from time to time. In the holiday special Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!, he is shown playing a guitar at Peppermint Patty's New Year's party.