Following the Apollo 1 fire, NASA adopted a character from this work to be its safety mascot.
Shortly before this series ended, Christopher Caldwell wrote an essay "against" its most iconic character for "never [being] a full participant in the tangle of relationships that drove [this work]", but Jonathan Franzen defended that character as being "the protean trickster". John Waters particularly liked when the B-3 pen was used to draw the extra-angry "total warfare frown" of a character in this series, and in a Fantagraphics introduction Alec Baldwin admired "trudging, Jimmy Stewart-like decency and predictability" of its main character. Following the Apollo 1 fire, NASA adopted a character from this work to be its safety mascot. This (*) strip arguably jumped the shark when characters such as Olaf, Andy, Marbles and Belle were introduced. In reruns since 2000, one of its characters is usually on the MetLife blimps. For 10 points, name this comic series created by Charles Schulz whose worst character is Snoopy.
Shortly before this series ended, Christopher Caldwell wrote an essay "against" its most iconic character for "never [being] a full participant in the tangle of relationships that drove [this work]", but Jonathan Franzen defended that character as being "the protean trickster".
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