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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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first OBserved

02/14/1952

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