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I forgot how great the early strips were! (The new strips are great, too!). Thanks for reprising them!

Jenny, Girard Ohio

In defense of the Anthony/Liz relationship:

True, Anthony is not exciting, but Greg Cravens said it well in yesterday's "Buckets:"
"Girls might date bad boys but they marry stable guys." Then the other character said, "Guys in a stable can't run off."

There you have it.

Pat, SLC Utah

I just watched part of the PBS Charles Schulz special for the second time and was struck again by Lynn. I have read Peanuts for as long as I can remember and FBOFW for as long as I've seen it. It was both a surprise and a pleasure to learn that Sparky and Lynn were connected (there's the picture of the two together somewhere on this website). In my personal mythology I have always believed that I learned to read from the daily comic strips, and in the best of them (Peanuts, FBOFW) there is a kind of subtle truth that emerges from the odd combination of humor and poignancy that is difficult to find anywhere else. It is now too late to thank Charles Schulz personally, but I would like to thank Lynn for her own daily version of that odd combination of humor and poignancy. You have been a blessing - thank you.

Henry H, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Dear Lynn,

I had not been a fan of the recent Grandpa Jim storyline -- so sad! But I wanted to let you know that it may have helped save my 93-year old neighbor's life. I was talking with her a few days ago after having walked her newspaper up to the front porch when I noticed she was speaking with aphasia -- not to the extent Grandpa Jim has, but she was having difficulty finding words, and often the wrong word came out, seemingly without her aware it wasn't the word she meant. I became alarmed because she's normally sharp as a tack, so we insisted on taking her to the emergency room (she kept protesting she was sure she was just tired from sleeping poorly the night before). Turned out she'd had a 'transient ischemic attack', sort of a mini-stroke. As a result her doctor has made some changes in her treatment, to ward off another such event, and all seems well for the time being.

So, thanks for the public service you perform!

Tori M, San Francisco