Snoopy & The Gang
Celebrate Snoopy & Peanuts with this collection featuring all the prominent members of the gang. This, of course, includes the multi-faceted philosophical genius that is Snoopy.
It’s difficult to know what makes Snoopy such a much loved character. Charles M Schulz dog creation was not the first of his famous characters but is surely the best loved. If I were going to create a cartoon character, I’d be looking for an appealing shape and that’s certainly part of the magic. However, it’s the flights (no pun intended) of fancy in which Snoopy indulges, that we are allowed to share, that gives depth to him. As Schulz put it “He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he leads kind of a dull, miserable life. I don’t envy dogs the lives they have to live.” Thus in many ways Snoopy says it’s OK to dream, go ahead indulge your fantasy.
This ability to imagine takes us into his various personas. What’s clever is that Snoopy never seems to succeesd: The WW1 flying ace who never quite manages to down the Red Baron, The slice of life from the failing Tennis Pro. The greatest writer never to finish a book. Perhaps the greatest strenght, then, is that we learn that dreaming and failing to realise that dream is accptable too.