Mean Girls 1 - Patty and Violet: Conformity Police

[gentle music] Welcome to Unpacking Peanuts, the podcast where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time, Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

Hey, everybody.

Welcome back to the show.

It's a new season of Unpacking Peanuts, and it's gonna be so fetch.

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We're doing Mean Girls.

I'll be your host for the proceedings.

My name's Jimmy Gownley.

I'm also a cartoonist.

I did things like Amelia Rules, and you can find all my new comics over there on Substack at GvilleComics.

And joining me as always are my pals, co-hosts, and fellow cartoonists.

He's a playwright and a composer, both for the band Complicated People, as well as for this very podcast.

He's the co-creator of the original Comic Book Price Guide, the original editor for Amelia Rules, and the creator of such great strips as Strange Attractors, A Gathering of Spells, and Tangled River.

It's Michael Kupperman.

Say hey.

And he's the executive producer and writer of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a former vice president of Archie Comics, and the creator of the Instagram sensation Sweetest Beasts.

It's Harold Buchholz.

Hello.

And keeping us out of trouble and making sure everything runs smoothly, it's our producer and editor, Liz Sumner.

Howdy.