Peanuts

Since my last post I have made an interesting discovery. I have figured out who Linus Van Pelt is! (thanks Rabbi Rosen). He is a character in the cartoon peanuts who always carries his blue blanket around with him. I can use him in my project to show how cartoons present comfort items. In the cartoon, whenever Linus lost his blanket he became weak and dizzy,then suddenly recovered when the blanket was returned to him. Eventually, Linus began to grow out of his habit and the comic strip showed him with the blanket less and less until it was gone. I am going to dedicate a large part of my project to researching how social media displays comfort items. Why did the author draw Linus with the blanket in the first place? Was it his intention to display him in a certain light using the blanket?.... to be continued.