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scans_daily...and he's still one of the most recognisable cartoon characters in the world!
Can you guess who I mean?
Woodstock knows that he is very small and inconsequential indeed. It’s a problem we all have. The universe boggles us. Woodstock is a lighthearted expression of that idea.
- Charles Schulz
Actually, until today, I was not aware that originally the little yellow bird was female in their first appearances... as Schulz put it.
I had been reading the Life magazine article about the Woodstock festival and I had the little bird in the strip. It was a she and she was Snoopy's secretary and I was doing secretary jokes quite often so then I thought Woodstock would be a good name for this bird and also, it will get the attention of these people that liked that kind of thing. Suddenly, she was not a secretary, she became Woodstock, the boy. It just happened. But that's what's good about a comic strip - you can just do it.
Woodstock quickly became established as Snoopy's best friend (Apart from the round-headed kid who fed him, but that wasn't quite the same dynamic) and accomplice in any number of escapades and delusions...
He was still very much a bird...
...though there were certain aspects he never quite mastered;
Woodstock was sometimes joined by other members of his species, most notably in Snoopy's Beagle Scout troop, where we met Bill, Conrad, Olivier and eventually Harriet, the first confirmed girl of the... flock?
Somewhat more aggressive than the others, on one occasion she spent the night in jail (Well, the Humane Society) for getting into a fight with some bluejays, but she did eventually find happiness and settled down to marry Bill.
So happy anniversary of being named Woodstock!
Can you guess who I mean?
Woodstock knows that he is very small and inconsequential indeed. It’s a problem we all have. The universe boggles us. Woodstock is a lighthearted expression of that idea.
- Charles Schulz
Actually, until today, I was not aware that originally the little yellow bird was female in their first appearances... as Schulz put it.
I had been reading the Life magazine article about the Woodstock festival and I had the little bird in the strip. It was a she and she was Snoopy's secretary and I was doing secretary jokes quite often so then I thought Woodstock would be a good name for this bird and also, it will get the attention of these people that liked that kind of thing. Suddenly, she was not a secretary, she became Woodstock, the boy. It just happened. But that's what's good about a comic strip - you can just do it.
Woodstock quickly became established as Snoopy's best friend (Apart from the round-headed kid who fed him, but that wasn't quite the same dynamic) and accomplice in any number of escapades and delusions...
He was still very much a bird...
...though there were certain aspects he never quite mastered;
Woodstock was sometimes joined by other members of his species, most notably in Snoopy's Beagle Scout troop, where we met Bill, Conrad, Olivier and eventually Harriet, the first confirmed girl of the... flock?
Somewhat more aggressive than the others, on one occasion she spent the night in jail (Well, the Humane Society) for getting into a fight with some bluejays, but she did eventually find happiness and settled down to marry Bill.
So happy anniversary of being named Woodstock!
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Date: 2016-06-22 10:26 pm (UTC)*misses her toy Woodstock she had as a child*
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Date: 2016-06-23 04:48 am (UTC)I kinda like the thought of Woodstock being a girl aw
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Date: 2016-06-23 03:31 pm (UTC)Plus he's never actually gone away, plush Woodstock's are still a staple of the soft toy market and my niece loved the one I got for her last Christmas. (He was featured in the Peanuts movie after all).