“It’s The Zoot Suit Riots, Charlie Brown!”
So as promised in the comments section for this post, pal Nat dropped by and gifted me with a couple of his extra copies of Charlie Brown’s ‘Cyclopedia. One of them, volume 11, “What We Wear,” contains the single greatest Snoopy image of all time:
I can hear hotlinkers copying and pasting the URL of that image all across the internettings. JUST DOWNLOAD IT AND UPLOAD TO YOUR OWN IMAGE HOSTS, YOU BASTARDS.
Ahem. Anyway, that’s likely not a Schulz drawing, but I would have paid one American dollar to see a sequence in Peanuts featuring this very version of Snoopy. Unless there’s a sequence I missed or don’t remember…there are 50 years’ worth of strips, after all. Yeah, okay, “Joe Zoot” would have seemed a bit…anachronistic, but it probably would have fit right in during that weird Peanuts period of the mid-to-late ’90s. My recollection Schulz was up to some odd stuff in his strips during that time.
But I’m pretty sure even then he never had Sally talking about naked people:
SALLY BROWN DRAWS THE LINE AT NUDISM.
Sally could never be one of “Pimpin’ Snoop’s” ho’s.
Cherry Poppin’ Daddies!
Zoot suit… jive talk! Dance!
Link to this image, not to the Mikester’s image: http://a.yfrog.com/img522/4683/m2v.jpg
The Snoopy face is likely Schulz’s, culled from some other usage. But yes, the outfit is obviously not his.
But I never realized that Sally was a fan of Fi’ty Cent.
OT: A bit of nerd trivia I found interesting: Schultz’s son Monte apparently worked as a game tester for Infocom (Zork and other text adventures) back in the 80s.
He’s one of the people interviewed in the text adventure documentary Get Lamp.