Character Spotlight: Andy

Of all the comic strips out there, only a handful are household names. Of those, Peanuts is probably the most well-known. And of all the Peanuts characters - and there are quite a few - none is so well known as Charlie Brown's dog, Snoopy. In fact, I'm sure you've heard someone refer to the Peanuts strip or franchise as a whole as "Snoopy" before. It stands to reason, then, that if everyone loves Snoopy, you know what they'd love even more? MORE Snoopy!

With that in mind, we got our first mention of Snoopy's brother, Spike, on August 4, 1975:

And we meet him on August 13, 1975:

After that, Snoopy's other siblings were slowly introduced: Belle in June 1976, Marbles in September 1982, and Olaf in January 1989. But that's only half  of the litter. The other three - Andy, Molly, and Rover - were introduced in the 1991 tv special, Snoopy's Reunion.

Andy then later appeared in the comic strip on February 14, 1994:

Interestingly, Molly and Rover never appeared in the comics. So even though Snoopy does canonically have two siblings we've never met, there's no guarantee they're Molly and Rover.

Andy made several more appearances in the strip, always accompanied by his brother, Olaf. His last appearance was September 27, 1999. about six months before the final strip ran.