What gibberish! Schultz saw a shining opportunity to expand Snoopy's character, as he did with Snoopy the Flying Ace (and his Sopwith Camel), and went with it.
I loved Joe Cool and was always amused when he showed up in the strip.
I get the impression that, no, he didn’t especially like them, but it’s still pretty gentle ribbing compared to some of the stuff people were saying about hippies in 1971
Yes, recently watched Ken Burns' Vietnam doco, was amazed about the opinion polls around Kent State, just how big the Nixon landslide was. Just because the majority wanted us out of the war did NOT mean they were OK with activism and public protests.
I knew this as the fact that the hippies were always a relative small minority, even within the subcohort of boomers that were exactly young adults during the Summer of Love is a favorite rant subject of my mom, who, you guessed it, hates hippies even though she’s a liberal.
It's funny, I grew up with Snoopy and Joe Cool and took them for granted. It's kind of amazing to think that this was a conscious decision by Schultz: slap a pair of shades on Snoopy, give him a new posture and call him Joe Cool. So simple and so effective.
Sweet lord, I was sitting in the UF student union drinking a coffee when I read that strip, never mind I was a chemistry major, now 54 years later an I find out, I am, Joe Cool, who would of thunk it.
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Some things never change.
I loved Joe Cool and was always amused when he showed up in the strip.
not to imply he was right wing either ofc