Editing Peanuts (section)

===Supporting characters===
{{Main|List of Peanuts characters}}

In addition to the core cast, other characters appeared regularly for a majority of the strip's duration:
* '''[[Sally Brown]]''' is the younger sister of Charlie Brown. She has a habit of fracturing the English language to comical effect.{{sfn|Inge|2010|p=175}} She reacts negatively to school and homework due to dealing with dogmatic memorization and obeying ambiguous instructions. She otherwise confidently delivers speeches in oral exams, using wordplay and puns while framing her topics with theatrics and suspense.{{sfn|Wong|2018}}
* '''[[Schroeder (Peanuts)|Schroeder]]''' is a boy who is fanatic about [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]. Each year he celebrates Beethoven's birthday, though on occasion he does forget and struggles to forgive himself. In this relatively innocent role, he serves as an outlet for the expressions of other characters.{{sfn|Inge|2010|p=82}} He most recognizably appears in the strip playing music on his toy piano,{{sfn|Michaelis|2007|p=254}}{{sfn|Inge|2010|pp=158–159}} as the catcher on Charlie Brown's baseball team and the romantic foil to Lucy's unrequited affections who is always after a kiss especially when it's Beethoven's birthday.
* '''[[Pig-Pen]]''' is a boy who is physically dirty, normally appearing with a cloud of dust surrounding him. Schulz acknowledged that the scope of his role is limited, but he continued to make appearances because of his popularity with readers.{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=96}}
* '''[[Franklin (Peanuts)|Franklin]]''' is an [[African American]] boy who first appeared at the suggestion of a reader following the [[assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.]] Since it was Schulz's intention to achieve this without being patronizing, he is a relatively normal character who mainly reacts to the oddness of other characters.{{sfn|Gertler|2012}}
* '''[[Woodstock (Peanuts)|Woodstock]]''' is a bird and Snoopy's friend. He entirely communicates through peeps, which leaves it up to readers to guess what he says.{{sfn|Inge|2010|p=171}} Schulz said that Woodstock is aware that he is small and inconsequential, a role that serves as lighthearted existential commentary on coping with the much larger world.{{sfn|Inge|2010|p=176}}
* '''[[Snoopy#Siblings|Spike]]''' is Snoopy's brother who lives alone in the California desert.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://schulzmuseum.org/timeline/2030/ |title= 1929 |website= Charles M. Schulz Museum | access-date= 18 February 2021}}</ref>

Several early characters faded out of prominence during the strip's run. For example [[Shermy]], [[Patty (Peanuts)|Patty]] and [[Violet (Peanuts)|Violet]] were core characters during the initial years of the strip.{{sfn|Inge|2000|pp=69–70}}{{sfn|Inge|2010|p=7}}{{sfn|Goodwillie|2021}} By 1956, Patty and Violet's roles were described only as an extension to Lucy's, and Shermy, who was initially Charlie Brown's closest friend, was then described merely as "an extra little boy".{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=7}} In 1954, Schulz attempted to introduce Charlotte Braun, who was essentially a female version of Charlie Brown but with an excessively loud voice; poor reaction to her humorless personality led to Schulz "[[kill off|killing her off]]" in a tongue-in-cheek letter to a fan in 1955.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=September 4, 2000 |title=A Cartoon Death on Your Conscience |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95903&page=1 |access-date=2022-12-25 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref> Similarly [[Frieda (Peanuts)|Frieda]], a girl with "naturally curly hair", was introduced in 1962, but was already being phased out by the late 1960s after her comic value had seemed to have rapidly run its course; and after 1975, she made only background appearances.{{sfn|Inge|2000|p=171}} Conversely, [[Rerun van Pelt|Rerun]], the youngest brother of Linus and Lucy, had only limited visibility after his introduction in 1973, but became a foreground character by the middle of the 1990s.{{sfn|Farago|2017|p=241}}