[the_gipsy]

But Charlie is a fool, a half-moron. Arthur is not dumb.

[metabagel]

Charlie Brown is a child.

[rolymath]

[flagged]

[jfengel]

Sorta. The whole point of the strip is that they don't talk or act like children.

"Schultz" is German for "brown". He's very much the author's adult POV, using a child-looking character to disarm the cynicism.

[unwind]

Brown in German is actually, wait for it, "braun".

[impossiblefork]

Schultz actually is not German for brown. It's a name deriving from the name of a kind of medieval tax official.

[rags2riches]

> "Schultz" is German for "brown".

Beleg fehlt.