Schroeder (Peanuts) thinks about it, it makes him sad. Lucy simply replies with, "Try not to think about it, five cents, please!" After he leaves, she remarks, "Some cases are relatively simple". Schroeder accepted gifts from Lucy on a few occasions. Once, when she gave him a sketch of Beethoven that she drew herself, he was thrilled, but she was then shocked to find he already had a gigantic wall-sized portrait of Beethoven in an elaborate frame hanging in his room. Another time, on Beethoven's birthday, she gave him a picture of Johann Strauss because "they were all out of Beethoven". Schroeder
The Neighbors (comic strip) a gently humorous reminder of something that has probably happened to his reader will suffice." Clark received the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1961. The Neighbors (comic strip) The Neighbors was an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by George Clark which ran from 1939 to 1971. Clark launched "The Neighbors" in 1939 with the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate. Similar to his earlier "Side Glances", it explored subtle aspects of middle-class family humor. He soon added a Sunday strip, "Our Neighbors, the Ripples", a title eventually shortened to "The Ripples". The Sunday strip was dropped in