PEANUTTINESS

I have been in love with 'Peanuts' for so many years – at least 60, possibly more – that I'm rarely stopped in my tracks by the strip's recurrent moments of the bizarre, such as Snoopy pounding his typewriter or zooming into aerial combat on his Sopwith Camel doghouse, and then I run up against one of those zany sequences in which Charlie Brown's little sister, Sally, has a conversation with her school building and I realise that Charles Schulz's should be properly remembered not as a brilliant cartoonist but as one of the truly great surrealists of the twentieth century...