Marcie

Marcie made her first appearance in the daily strip from July 20, 1971,{{Cite web|title=Peanuts by Charles Schulz for July 20, 1971|url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1971/07/20|website=GoComics}} but her name wasn't mentioned until the strip from October 11.{{Cite web|author-link=Charles M. Schulz|title=Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 11, 1971|url=https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1971/10/11}} The character was modeled after Elise Gallaway,{{Cite web |last=Knudde |first=Kjell |date=3 May 2022 |title=Charles M. Schulz |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/schulz.htm |access-date=2022-06-21 |website=Lambiek Comiclopedia |language=en}} the roommate of Patty Swanson, Charles M. Schulz's cousin and the inspiration for the Peppermint Patty character.{{cite book |last= Michaelis|first= David |year=2008 |title= Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography|publisher= Harper Perennial|pages= 335|isbn= 978-0060937997}}

Schulz never gave Marcie a surname in the comic strip. However, she has been given two surnames in animated features. In the 1994 animated special You're In the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, Marcie's surname is given as "Johnson".{{cite web|url=http://www.peanutscollectorclub.com/peantfaq.txt|title=Peanuts FAQ|author=Derrick Bang}}

Marcie is spotlighted in her first special, Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie, which premiered August 18, 2023, on Apple TV+.{{Cite news |last=Wallace |first=Debra |date=August 19, 2023 |title=Craig Schulz on His Latest Peanuts Project And Why His Dad Felt 'Disrespected' |work=Parade |url=https://parade.com/tv/one-of-a-kind-marcie-craig-schulz-interview-peanuts-legacy |access-date=August 20, 2023}}

Marcie wears round glasses with opaque lenses and wears her dark brown (sometimes black) hair in a short bob style.{{cite web|url=http://kotaku.com/how-peanuts-used-marcie-to-explore-unhealthy-relationsh-1791599363|title=How Peanuts Used Marcie To Explore Unhealthy Relationships|first=Kevin|last=Wong|date=25 January 2017 |access-date=20 March 2017}} In the animated specials, she also wears an orange T-shirt (colored red in the Apple TV+ specials and The Peanuts Movie). She and Peppermint Patty were the only girls in the strip to wear a T-shirt and shorts.

Marcie is best friends with Peppermint Patty, constantly addressing her as "sir" (she called her "sir" in her first line in the strip). Originally, Peppermint Patty kept telling Marcie to stop calling her that but eventually grows accustomed to it. Initially, Peppermint Patty addresses Marcie as "dorky" and, when talking to others, refers to her as "my weird friend from camp". While Peppermint Patty refers to Charlie Brown as "Chuck", Marcie usually calls him "Charles". Marcie is very intelligent and does well in school (a contrast with Peppermint Patty), but sometimes says that she is pressured by her parents' expectation of her to do well in school, and even that despite her young age, they have already chosen her college.

Marcie has been played by many voice actors in animated Peanuts productions.

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• Jimmy Ahrens (1973–1977)
• Casey Carlson (1977–1981)
• Shannon Cohn (1980–1982)
• Michael Dockery (1983, 1985)
• Keri Houlihan (1984–1986, 1988)
• Jason Mendelson (1986)
• Tani Taylor Powers (1988)
• Marie Cole (1989)
• Lindsay Benesh (1992)
• Nicole Fisher (1994–1997)
• Ashley Edner (2000)
• Jessica D. Stone (2002)
• Melissa Montoya (2003)
• Jessica Gordon (2006)
• Rebecca Bloom (2015)
• Taylor Autumn Bertman (2016)
• Vasi Chris (2018–2019)
• Holly Gorski (2019–present)
• Arianna McDonald (2023)

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• {{cite web|url=http://www.peanuts.com/characters/marcie/|title =Marcie: Character Facts, Comics and Videos|date =3 September 2020}}

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