Kevin Powell“What Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Peanuts Meant to Me”: A writer, activist and author of “My Mother. One particular Schulz gag — Lucy pulling the football away just as Charlie Brown tried to kick it — had a deeply personal meaning. But he says the character he identified with was Charlie Brown, whose awkwardness reminded Moody of his own youthful social ineptitude and mediocrity at sports. Those included 1973’s “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and its 1988 companion piece “The Mayflower Voyagers,” which retells the first Thanksgiving with “Peanuts” characters in supporting roles. After that, “I also decided that I didn’t have to be Charlie Brown my whole life.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 27, 2019 15:00 UTC