“You Act Like We Never Have Met,” is a feature about one-time cast members of popular comic series that have fallen by the wayside in the years since. Some of these are characters who would appear in comics routinely read by hundreds of thousands of people but are now effectively mysteries. Today, we look at Snoopy’s cast of tennis rivals who came and went when Snoopy stopped playing tennis.
Charles Schulz was a longtime fan of sports, and he enjoyed playing them, as well. The interesting thing about his interest in sports is that you could often tell what sport he was particularly into at the time by how much he featured that sport in Peanuts. Well, during the 1970s, Schulz got really into tennis, playing frequently with his wife, Jean.
Snoopy’s tennis player persona debuted in 1970, but for the first six years of the decade, Snoopy just played tennis against the garage door at Charlie Brown’s house. By this point in time, Schulz had really gotten into tennis, and had even befriended some notable tennis players, including Billie Jean King. So I suppose Schulz felt it was time to try to expand the cast for these tennis strips. Note that Schulz was always willing to expand the cast of the series when need be, and he would be just as quick to drop a character if he didn’t think they were working out (even if he would hilariously guilt-trip the fans who complained about certain characters).
“You Act Like We Never Have Met,” is a feature about one-time cast members of popular comic series that have fallen by the wayside in the years since. Some of these are characters who would appear in comics routinely read by hundreds of thousands of people but are now effectively mysteries. Today, we look at Snoopy’s cast of tennis rivals who came and went when Snoopy stopped playing tennis.
Charles Schulz was a longtime fan of sports, and he enjoyed playing them, as well. The interesting thing about his interest in sports is that you could often tell what sport he was particularly into at the time by how much he featured that sport in Peanuts. Well, during the 1970s, Schulz got really into tennis, playing frequently with his wife, Jean.
Snoopy’s tennis player persona debuted in 1970, but for the first six years of the decade, Snoopy just played tennis against the garage door at Charlie Brown’s house. By this point in time, Schulz had really gotten into tennis, and had even befriended some notable tennis players, including Billie Jean King. So I suppose Schulz felt it was time to try to expand the cast for these tennis strips. Note that Schulz was always willing to expand the cast of the series when need be, and he would be just as quick to drop a character if he didn’t think they were working out (even if he would hilariously guilt-trip the fans who complained about certain characters).
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