Peanuts: Search and Destroy

A triumph over Mondays, amirite? so true.

I have to say Garfield was a big inspiration to me as a kid and I learned to draw cartoons by practicing characters from U.S. Acres and Garfield.

Somehow it seems like Schulz's visual icons are untouchable (the little eye parentheses for disbelief, apostrophe eyes for incredulity, their way of walking, even his squiggly, loose style). Like yes everyone can use exclamation points & question marks, sweat tadpoles, clouds behind them for movement, motion lines, but not anything Schulz invented. I haven't seen his little icons anywhere else, it seems like they're left to him out of reverence & I want to employ some of them but it does feel like lighting a smoke with the Eternal Flame or something.

That's why it was okay to steal from Garfield.

lolz US Acres

How did Schulz feel about "Marvin"?

PEANUTS is some str8 garbage and if you can't admit it then you are lying to yourself and to god

i love how 95 percent of the responses to that are like 'wtf is the matter with you' and then the original dude finally comes around

i'm shocked i took such an extremist BF Skinner/Shakey Mo Collier position on this. i actually like much of it, just have never understood people really, really into Peanuts.

― sanskrit, Tuesday, June 5, 2007 1:33 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wtf I love Peanuts and BF Skinner is a jackass

man i LOVED those "charlie brown super book of questions and answers" books, i probably still have a ton of out-of-date '70s information floating around my brain somewhere because of them.

I have given up on my dream of owning all the Fantagraphics reprints :(
well at least I have the first four volumes.

man i LOVED those "charlie brown super book of questions and answers" books, i probably still have a ton of out-of-date '70s information floating around my brain somewhere because of them.

― J.D., Tuesday, December 2, 2008 3:20 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I threw these away a few months ago as we were moving. :-(

i love how 95 percent of the responses to that are like 'wtf is the matter with you' and then the original dude finally comes around

― J.D., Tuesday, December 2, 2008 4:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

eh i am basically back to 'fuk peanuts' now - reading everyone's responses along the lines of 'well it's not supposed to be FUNNY, duh' just piss me off, like how dare i expect the funny pages to be funny/entertaining!@!!!!! well in conclusion eat shit charlie brown.

those motherfuckers got chocolate in your peanut butter!

ignore anyone who says that, that's just the cute hipster line. peanuts at its best was always funny.

just the name "Joe Shlabotnik" makes me laugh

It's the pure misery of human existence that MAKES it funny.

I'm crazy curious about what those Al Plastino Peanuts cartoons look like.

The bio was a good read though I read it being warned not to take everything at face value. Michaelis does make some good points about how the strip reflected Schulz's real life, like how Lucy kinda went docile and getting hit in the head with the baseball all the time after he left his first wife.

And knowing the backstory of Snoopy's obsession with the girl-beagle's "soft paws", well okay then.

Desecration.

I wonder if Mr. Schulz is doing a stylized grave-spin in time to Charlie B.'s sick beats...

Did Ned ever get his frame I wonder..

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 2 December 2008 14:21 (10 months ago) Bookmark

I did! In the post to-day. From The Complete Peanuts 1961-1962 - I give you my favourite-ist (well one of them) strip ever.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2660/4054758489_5cfa97e935_b.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llrqi1kxkp1qewxco.jpg

http://peanutweeter.com/

that lattering is gross

so gross it doesn't even deserve to be called lettering

no peanuts parody i've seen has ever been anything less than embarrassing, except maybe that r. sikoryak one that redid the metamorphosis as 'good ol gregor brown.'

i lol'd a bit

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lll045ZxvN1qewxco.jpg

What if you're filling in the thought balloons of an old Snoopy comic with horrible lettering?

Haha, they have everything on the internet now:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_2OgpsMgKSls/SkGpB9Qo4rI/AAAAAAAADBs/U3-xLVVUG-E/s1600-h/Peanuts2.jpg

Is it ok that fake 19-year-old Linus is giving me...feelings...?

no peanuts parody i've seen has ever been anything less than embarrassing, except maybe that r. sikoryak one that redid the metamorphosis as 'good ol gregor brown.'

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, June 2, 2011 7:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

love ivan brunetti's schultz-style characters and line, but it's hardly a parody

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/New-Yorker-Halloween-cover-Ivan-Brunetti.jpg

sikoryak:

http://simplemanblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/good-ol-gregor-brown-comic-von-r-sikoryak.png

Brunetti's current style is not very Schulz-like, and his line not at all

okay, yes, i regretted that "line" bit as soon as i hit submit. chalk it up to poor thinking, all apologies.

nevertheless, i do think his little bulb-head block-body people do look like (and almost certainly intend to evoke) peanuts characters.

I don’t doubt that Schulz was someone he studied while trying to develop this reductive, iconic style – especially in the wake of that tribute strip from Top Shelf #....8? – but I really don’t think it’s meant specifically to evoke Schulz. I see a much closer similarity to Richard McGuire’s work from the last 20 years, if we’re drawing specific antecedents or influences.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6194/6124822796_537b8ae447_z.jpg

would buy a t shirt of 'win with charlie brown'

posters are from '68 election, btw

One day, I'll tell my children how one of my fondest childhood icons was a bullet-ridden doghouse.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/Peanuts1.png

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/Sprad/Peanuts2.png

I used to love leafing through Peanuts Treasury back in high school. Wish I could remember specific strips well enough to post some.

http://www.squealingrat.org/wit/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/snoopy-vulture1.jpg

the Treasury was great, so many classic storylines... the doghouse burning down, the masked marvel, good stuff.

I wish Baseball-Reference.com would set up a fake Joe Shlabotnik page.

I never pass up an opportunity to post this late-period gem:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2369/5815341473_a393981832_z.jpg

i always appreciated Peanuts, and definitely had one of those Charlie Brown t-shirts when i was a teenager and wore it all the time b/c i strongly identified with him.

If you haven't already put http://peanutsroasted.blogspot.com/ in your blog reader of choice yet...

that strip Deric posted is so awesome, Schulz stayed gangsta til the end

I'm about 14 years behind on the Completes at the moment, but if I don't catch up I'm definitely jumping in again for the 90s, love that weird dgaf tone he developed there

I can think of no rational reason for this nightmare to occur. I'd wager that the population-at-large has the lowest interest in Peanuts that they've had in 60 years (unless people are really charmed by those Met Life commercials), and no one who's a legitimate fan is gonna want to see this CGI abortion. But I'm sure it will unaccountably be a box office smash.

""We finally felt the time was right and the technology is where we need it to be to create this film,"

Was this actually said? By a Schulz family member?

This is the worst idea ever.

think of myself as a 'legitimate fan' - but then i think anybody who has ever read peanuts is a 'legitimate fan' - and would go to see this in the same way I went to the Tintin movie, ie more in hope than expectation. not sure why computer animation is any more or less 'legitimate' than hand-drawn cel animation, tho' i can see how the peculiar dimensions of the characters cld look v weird rendered in three dimensions.

Was this actually said? By a Schulz family member?

Reading the Schulz biography gave me a rather low opinion of most of his family members.