"The Great Gatsby" was published 100 years ago today. Charles Schulz came back to it numerous times in "Peanuts," including in this strip from June 26, 1995, my favorite in the last decade of "Peanuts," so spare and melancholy and strange.
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And it’s a dog. An anthropomorphic dog who looks a little like a dog but only kinda and he’s talking to his friend the bird who doesn’t really look like a bird. Just a very strange comic universe.
It's not hard to see why Schulz would've been attracted to Fitzgerald--they're both romantic and melancholy, clear-eyed and nostalgic. Lots of great one-panel mentions of Fitzgerald throughout "Peanuts."
But perhaps the most notable role that "The Great Gatsby" played in "Peanuts" is that it gave Schulz an opening to actually show the Little Red-Haired Girl, if only in the shadows. But here she is--the closest that Schulz comes to depicting her in the strip itself.
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