Tommy Collison

I never collected magazines as a kid. John collected the Beano and Patrick got some programming one, PC World I think it was, but there was never one that really caught my eye.

Having said that, I do enjoy comics.

I first came across Charlie Brown through the musical, which debuted off-Broadway in 1967, which was a big hit, being performed over 1,500 times. It was revived on Broadway in 1999 and starred Anthony Rapp in the title role. I soon moved on to the original comics, written by Charles M. Schulz.

The comics, which began on October 2nd, 1950, are remarkable for their astute social commentary and tackling subjects unheard of in a children’s comic, such as the Vietnam War. In 1958, in a strip where Snoopy tosses Linus up in the air and boasts that he was the first dog ever to launch a human subtly references Laika, the dog the Russians sent into space earlier the same year, which preempted the Russians sending a human into space 3 years later.

I suggest checking it out and following it at http://comics.com/peanuts/