― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 19 December 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
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― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 08:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 13:19 (twenty years ago) link
I went to the Schulz museum in Santa Rosa last year and it just busted me in two in a wonderful way.
― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
sorry i'm british. no-one i know would give a sh-t over here.
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 15:54 (twenty years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 05:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Speedy (Speedy Gonzalas), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 09:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
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I always thought "Peanuts" was kind of a dud, until they started rerunning the old strips after Schulz's death, and I realized how hilarious they used to be. I'm looking forward to more of the "Complete Peanuts" books.
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link
The other thing I noticed looking at the really early strips is just how much Charlie Brown looks like Calvin...or vice versa, really. Just put a bad haircut on some of those early Charlie Brown drawings, and you'd have Calvin.
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago) link
― aimurchie, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:30 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:40 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:43 (twenty years ago) link
"who broke into the liquor cabinet and made this mess?" "not me!"
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:56 (twenty years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:01 (twenty years ago) link
If you guys don't read this, nobody will...
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 24 June 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 25 June 2004 06:14 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Bill Keane, Friday, 25 June 2004 09:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff Keane, Friday, 25 June 2004 09:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Friday, 25 June 2004 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link
I've finished the first volume, and I've got six more months left of Volume II. I miss Schulz more with every strip and count myself fortunate that I got to read his strips fresh and new every day in the newspaper.
Last night, I hit two strips that were a bit different. One had Shermy going through Charlie Brown's comic book collection: "Wow, you've got Revolutionary War stories, War of 1812 stories, Civil War stories, World War I stories, World War II stories, Korean War stories..." to which Charlie Brown responds, "I'm kinda worried about the next issue."
And Lucy being tethered to a rope going BWHAHM! in her imitation of a hydrogen bomb.
In the first volume, Schulz illustrated a comics rack stacked with titles like FEAR and HATE which I found a bit unsettling for a Peanuts strip. However, I do enjoy the fact that the volumes are being published by Fantagraphics, also home to Hate by Peter Bagge.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
My box set of the first two volumes just arrived from Amazon today. I am a happy man.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 January 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
but it's not hard to interpret the strip as eulogising various unhealthy traits - low self esteem, unrequited love, etc. i sometimes joke that i want to be linus but am more like charlie brown, but i've been wondering recently whether reading lots of peanuts strips as a kid might've instilled some subconscious belief that the misery depicted on a day-to-day basis in the comic was some kind of normalcy, that i may have transposed charlie brown's own anxieties upon my own.
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
that said, just finished the 1955-56 complete book, and getting ready to start on the 57-58 one. These are still really great strips!
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
In 2000, it became known that a fan of Peanuts had written Schulz a letter requesting that Charlotte Braun be removed. Schulz wrote back, promising to remove the character but asking the reader if she wanted to be responsible for "the death of an innocent child". The letter included a picture of Charlotte Braun with an ax in her head. The letter has been donated to the Library of Congress.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link
LA Locals, currently there is a comics exhibit at the Hammer museum in Westwood. "Chuck" Schultz is on display with many of his contemporaries and even some pre- contemps. Some of it's trite, but others are outstanding in their oblique and darker references. Worth a look since Thursday's admission is FREE! Lichtenstein's Polaroid's are awesome too.
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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― stet (stet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link