It's "Comics Noir," Charlie Brown

As "Peanuts Begins" kept working its way through the early years of the comic strip, I did get to wondering when one particular strip would turn up. On reading the very first volume of "The Complete Peanuts," I was amused by one strip from 1952 (the "cute period" of the strip, perhaps) where Charlie Brown was out in the rain in a trench coat and fedora; I wound up scanning a panel in to use as one of my valuable few Livejournal icons. The black-and-white image did somehow stand out, though, and when the colourized strips rolled around to this instalment at last today I decided to make an upgrade (of sorts, of course, what with those who'll extol "the artist's original vision"...) In the end, though, the change in icons not going automatically backwards did leave me thinking my old Livejournal might yet still commemorate the way things were.