Lucy Van Pelt is one of Peanuts' most beloved characters, but before her debut, Violet Gray played a role similar to hers.

While they may have the most toxic relationship in the Peanuts comic strips, Schroeder still seems to go to Lucy for advice, supposedly due to her vast knowledge of different topics. "Why do we ...

By 2000, Schulz’s strip and the award-winning TV specials that featured his work had turned “Peanuts ... not Lucy, who has yet to appear in the strip. Schultz starts a second comic strip ...