Schroeder (Peanuts) arrives with a toy violin and asks Schroeder if he could play Beethoven on it, and Schroeder scoffs at such an absurd idea. Peppermint Patty once called Schroeder a "miniature Leonard Bernstein" after she heard him whistling a classical piece during a ball game shortly after she was introduced to the strip and briefly took over management of the team. Schroeder's other distinguishing mark as a character is his constant refusal of Lucy's love. Lucy is infatuated with Schroeder, and frequently lounges against his piano while he is playing, professing her love for him. But Beethoven was a lifelong bachelor,
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