The Complete Peanuts Family Album. Andrew Farago

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      alentine’s Day is a bittersweet holiday for most

      of the gang. Charlie Brown can’t work up the

      nerve to give a valentine to the Little Red-Haired

      Girl, Lucy never receives a valentine from Schroeder,

      Peppermint Patty and Marcie don’t receive valentines

      from Charlie Brown, and Sally never gets a card

      from her “Sweet Babboo,” Linus. As Charlie Brown

      observes each year, “Nothing echoes like an empty

      mailbox.” Snoopy, however, always seems to receive

      more valentines than he can handle and spends

      the holiday enjoying a steady stream of cards

      from his many admirers.

       Valentine’s Day is, in many ways, one of the

      saddest days of the year in

      Peanuts

      . Charles

      Schulz noted many times that the cruelty of

      children is one of the strip’s most poignant recurring

      themes. “Nothing in life ends with a pow! And

      aren’t all kids egotists? And brutal? Children

      are caricatures of adults. We grown-ups don’t

      change so much, except on the surface,

      because we get along better that way.

      Maybe I have the cruelest strip going.”

      VALENTINE’S DAY

      1–8: Style Guide art – CSCA; 9: Waiting for

      Valentines, Parts One and Two, Peanuts

      Digital Edition – CSCA; 10: Be My Valen-

      tine, Charlie Brown; Artist: Jayson Weidel;

      Limited Edition Print; Courtesy: Dark Hall

      Mansion; 11: Snoopy Love; Artist: Laurent

      Durieux; Limited Edition Print; Courtesy:

      Dark Hall Mansion

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      4

      1

      5

      3

      7

      6

      9

      10

      11

      44

      THE COMPLETE PEANUTS FAMILY ALBUM

      above: Patty model sheet, 2010 – CSCA | below: Style Guide art – CSCA