You're Short, Bald and Ugly, Charlie Brown

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Four panels from an old "Peanuts" comic strip. The original word balloons have been replaced.
1st panel: Linus: "Diego, a most startling development has transpired at our house."
2nd panel: Linus: "Our family has acquired a billiards table."
3rd panel: Charlie Brown: "That is most interesting Juan. I am sure that your father will indulge in the game a good deal and enjoy himself immensely."
4th panel: Linus: "No Diego... it is my mother who is enjoying herself with this game of billiards."

I've been cleaning out some old hard drives and happened across a scan of this early-90s minicomic detourning old "Peanuts" strips. Attributed to "Dr. Casey 'Sparky' Finnegan", it was actually a handful of Toronto-based comics artists.

There are three sections, the first being some random gag strips trying to be as distasteful as possible, and third a series about Charlie Brown and Linus learning about their sexuality.

What makes this worth tracking down is the middle section, a short story called "Billiards" which gets much stranger than the very disorienting excerpt above.

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You're Short, Bald and Ugly, Charlie Brown

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