Goodness me, it’s Patty! It’s almost surreal to see her depicted in Schulz’s mid-70s drawing style, accustomed as we are to remembering her as she was drawn in the 50s and early 60s, when she was a major character in the strip. So: in the era of Woodstock and Marcie and baby Rerun, Patty is still living in Charlie Brown’s neighbourhood. How do we explain the fact that she’s still around, but virtually never seen any more (bearing only the Universe of the strip in mind?). The way I see it, she and Violet are no longer really friends with Charlie Brown. Supposing Charlie Brown were to be walking along with, say, Franklin, and they passed Patty in the street. I imagine C.B. would say, “That’s Patty. We used to hang out all the time some years ago; I remember how we used to hide bags of candy from Snoopy.” But she’s no longer someone who is a part of Charlie Brown’s life; I imagine that she has a new set of friends now, with Lucy being the only member of the Peanuts gang whom she still occasionally talks to. For all that, Patty will continue to make extremely rare appearances in the strip (always as a background character) until as late as 1995.
Goodness me, it’s Patty! It’s almost surreal to see her depicted in Schulz’s mid-70s drawing style, accustomed as we are to remembering her as she was drawn in the 50s and early 60s, when she was a major character in the strip. So: in the era of Woodstock and Marcie and baby Rerun, Patty is still living in Charlie Brown’s neighbourhood. How do we explain the fact that she’s still around, but virtually never seen any more (bearing only the Universe of the strip in mind?). The way I see it, she and Violet are no longer really friends with Charlie Brown. Supposing Charlie Brown were to be walking along with, say, Franklin, and they passed Patty in the street. I imagine C.B. would say, “That’s Patty. We used to hang out all the time some years ago; I remember how we used to hide bags of candy from Snoopy.” But she’s no longer someone who is a part of Charlie Brown’s life; I imagine that she has a new set of friends now, with Lucy being the only member of the Peanuts gang whom she still occasionally talks to. For all that, Patty will continue to make extremely rare appearances in the strip (always as a background character) until as late as 1995.