RW>but you didn't answer the question.  Is MetLife using
RW>cartoon characters because they want kids to buy
RW>insurance??
I think I answered this.
Snoopy, And the strip, Are intended for "Young Adults"  (IE: 20's) as
are most all comic strips.
In another time and place I chat with, among others, the people who
WRITE some of the strips.
One very wise man said you don't make a successful comic or strip by
writing for kids... You make one by writing for the person who has the
money (their parents)  and this makes a rather large amount of sense.
An example of this.  Garbage Can Kids trading card serries.  I refused
to waste my money on this crap and prohibited my daughter from doing so
But I read Peanuts (I'm 47) and rather like Snoopy myself.
And, as I said, Also have a policy with Met Life (Though it pre-dates
their spokes 'toon)
Comic strips serve many functions... One is entainerment, But if you
look close you find a lot of things like social commentary and other
educational matters are snuck in there in such a way you don't notice
till you've learned somethign.
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