Vintage Peanuts SNOOPY Character Stuffed DOLL Pillow

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You are bidding on a vintage, very soft, stuffed character doll pillow of Peanuts character Snoopy. This pillow doll is a one side printing and at the bottom it reads: (c) 1958, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Pillow has a very small minor spot discoloration but otherwise it is in excellent condition and measures 11 1/2 inches tall and 8 1/2 inches wide. Please view my photo below and if you have any questions, please feel free to email me before bidding. I only accept Paypal payments at this time and "NO" personal checks, regular money orders or cashiers checks. "IMMEDIATE PAYMENT THROUGH PAYPAL REQUIRED" Thanks and Good Luck! Snoopy is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts , by Charles M. Schulz . He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle . Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly ordinary dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character -- and among the most recognizable comic characters in the world. The original drawings of Snoopy were based on Schulz's childhood dogs, Snooky and Spike. Character Snoopy, while born on October 2nd, first made his appearance on the strip on October 4 , 1950 , two days after the strip premiered and was identified by name on November 10 . Schulz was originally going to call him "Sniffy" (as described in 25th anniversary book), until he discovered that name was used in a different comic strip. He changed it to "Snoopy" after remembering that his late mother Dena Schulz had commented that if their family were ever to acquire a third dog, it should be called Snoopi. In earlier strips it is not clear who Snoopy belongs to; for instance in the February 2, 1951 strip, Charlie Brown accuses Snoopy of following him, only to be told by Patty that Snoopy isn't following Charlie Brown but merely lives in the same direction. Indeed many early strips show Snoopy interacting with Shermy and Patty without Charlie Brown, making Snoopy appear to belong to all of the neighborhood kids, similar to the dog Pete in the Our Gang comedies, who is everyone's dog. Snoopy was a silent character for the first two years of his existence, but on May 27 , 1952 he verbalized his thoughts to readers for the first time via a thought balloon ; Schulz would utilize this device for nearly all of the character's appearances in the strip tafter. In addition to Snoopy's ability to "speak" his thoughts to the reader, many of the human characters in Peanuts have the uncanny knack of reading his thoughts and responding to them. In the animated Peanuts films and television specials, Snoopy's thoughts are not verbalized; his moods are instead conveyed through growls, sobs, laughter, etc., as well as through pantomime . The only exceptions are in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Snoopy!!! The Musical , in which Snoopy's thoughts are verbalized through voiceovers (by Robert Towers and Cam Clarke, respectively). Animation producer Bill Meléndez voiced both Snoopy and (eventually) Woodstock in numerous television specials from 1965 to 2006. Oddly enough, the first time a beagle is mentioned in the strip ( December 5 , 1960 ), Snoopy denied being one. As Snoopy dozed, Charlie Brown paraphrased Gertrude Stein : "Beagles on the grass, alas." To this, Snoopy replied, "I am not a beagle." (Years later, Snoopy would paraphrase the Stein expression himself: "Birds in the grass, alas; beagle on the roof, aloof.") Many of Peanuts' memorable moments come in Snoopy's daydream as a writer: his eternal opener on the typewriter " It was a dark and stormy night ..." is taken from Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 's 1830 novel Paul Clifford . The contrast between Snoopy's existence in a dream world and Charlie Brown's in the real world is central to the humour and philosophy of Peanuts (e.g., the Peanuts book title Life's a dream, Charlie Brown ). Schulz summed up Snoopy's character in a 1997 interview: "He has to retreat into his fanciful world in order to survive. Otherwise, he ... read more

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