On: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)

[nick_]

The only comic worse is Garfield. I have no idea how anyone enjoys either of them.

[Angostura → nick_]

I see you've never met 'Andy Capp' popularly serialised in UK papers, together with Peanuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Capp

[detourdog → Angostura]

I totally agree about Andy Capp. The only interesting thing I ever heard about Andy Capp was from Jean Shepherd.

He said the Andy Capp title was a cockney accent pun for Handicap. Apparently Andy was a cockney horse race fanatic. That tidbit did make the strip any funnier to me.

[Angostura → detourdog]

He was from Hartlepool, not London, so not a cockney