Linus van Pelt is among the most underrated characters in the Peanuts comic strip series. The little brother of Lucy van Pelt adds so much more to the comics than people give him credit for.

Linus Maurer, a cartoonist and illustrator whose old friend and colleague Charles M. Schulz borrowed his first name for Charlie Brown's blanket-wielding best friend Linus in his "Peanuts" comic ...