Peanuts: Search and Destroy

in tribute:

which Peanuts character do you most identify with at this point in your life?

i struck a chord!

Just like Schroeder!

I guess this is fairly common wrt long running comic strips once they exhaust all the jokes about their basic gimmick?

One of my favourite examples of this is the "Robotman" strip, which started in the 1980s as an "ALF" style story about a robot from outer space living with a suburban family with two kids... Then the whole premise of the strip was rebooted so that Robotman started living with a nerdy guy named Monty, while the rest of the original cast disappeared, and the title was changed to "Robotman and Monty". Then Robotman himself disappeared, and now the strip is just about Monty. Talk about a ship of Theseus!

ha, perfect analogy. there are a lot of (less dramatic) variations on that theme, like "blondie" metamorphosing from the adventures of a flapper girl, whose boyfriend dagwood was, according to wiki, the heir to a railroad fortune (!)... to being primarily a settled suburbanite sitcom focused around dagwood the put-upon 9-to-5er. "wash tubbs" started out with small-town hijinks revolving around a girl-chasing, flivver-driving up-and-comer, and became a globe-trotting adventures trip propelled by the two-fisted, square-jawed captain easy.

Barney Google & Snuffy Smith

Never in my life did I set eyes on Barney Google in that strip

the ultimate example is thimble theater, which was a strip about scheming ne'er-do-well castor oyl and his sister olive until one day they needed to hire a sailor:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zFdVi5iwEAA/VGkDu3UZGkI/AAAAAAAAEH0/7cRMhua9a-U/s1600/popeye_firstcartoon.gif

Ha someone just explained that particular evolution to me the other day re: popeye

RIP professor whatasnozzle

fuck this half assed bullshit
https://www.uniqlo.com/us/en/kawsxpeanuts/kxp

preach

Good grief.

"KAWS is an internationally recognized artist who regularly exhibits in museums and galleries throughout the world. this UT collection features KAWS's unique rendition of the beloved comic strip “Peanuts.” Snoopy and other Peanuts favorites are presented in a bold graphical style with a sophisticated humor."

are the xs for eyes what makes his rendition unique or are they his sophisticated humor?

i have a unique rendition of Hello Kitty if anyone wants to see it.

You should see my Beenie and Cecil, Ohhhhh!

I am quietly grateful

http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article178281236.html

yeah i've been fretting about the well-being of the schulz museum. awful to even contemplate something happening to it. that stuff is irreplaceable.

given the number of dead, i think quietly grateful is about as far as i'd be willing to go

A good friend of mine of twenty years standing lost her house in the fire. I am well aware of the proper perspective, thank you.

not lecturing you, just agreeing

He had a perfectly legitimate character named Patty and then suddenly he introduces a character called Peppermint Patty and just lets the original Patty die out. What kind of cartoonist does that?

life is cruel

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/6d/5d/d5/6d5dd584e9214741e53fdce4d1e9b5c2.jpg

http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/csrpl/images/Peanuts.gif

i like that last one. year?

1973 http://peanuts.wikia.com/wiki/October_1973_comic_strips

A sad follow up: his home of 35 years, and where his widow Jean continued to live, was lost. She is fine but some personal memorabilia is now gone forever. http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/12/peanuts-creator-charles-schulzs-widow-flees-santa-rosa-fire-home-destroyed/

First, the Library of Alexandria. Now this.

v sad news :(

https://i.imgur.com/fRpXZLT.jpg

;_;

Sometimes when I'm alarmed I feel my (psychic) ears stand up like Snoopy's.

I wrote a very short story pic.twitter.com/hSO2nPtxq1

— Jason Ritter (@JasonRitter) December 23, 2017

Really good

Cheers mate

Carry On Charlie

Talk of Peanuts on another thread reminded me that over Christmas I visited the Schulz exhibition at Somerset House in London - highest possible recommendation for anyone with an interest in or love for the comic strip. So many originals all in one place, many of them absolutely key strips, as well as a ton of great memorabilia, personal correspondence, magazine covers, adverts etc etc - a lot to take in! They were totally cool about ppl taking pictures too, which was nice - here's a few panels I couldn't resist:

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https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/3489e466-271f-4910-84d7-a59d87278399-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/b62a4bff-9ae2-46bd-91c1-c66e2fd55afe-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/9b313ebd-38b9-4d85-844f-a3034ff53039-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

nice

Reminds me that I'm far, far, FAR too overdue for a visit to the Santa Rosa museum. This year if I can help it.

People are complaining about nu-Nancy, but that last one could be its blueprint

the exhibition was glorious. but how expensive were those t shirts???

EVERYTHING at Somerset House was expensive, including all of the merchandising. I sprang for the catalogue and some postcards. I thought that almost without exception, all the modern art pieces were terrible, and unnecessary. They had things like Spiegelman's Schulz strip - wow - and the odd strip by other cartoonists, but I would've like to have had more of the COMIC response to Peanuts - things like the Mad parodies, for example. But that's a small gripe set against the once in a lifetime chance to see so many originals up close and personal - I'm guessing they will be back in the museum after March, when the exhibition closes.

I received the recent Dell Archives book (a collection of the early Dell comic book series) as a xmas gift which, while providing a decent + fun alternate perspective on the Peanuts world, unfortunately contains way way less original Schulz material than I'd been led to believe. But I guess on the plus side for those unaware of its existence, there's some Schulz stuff now available that you might not have seen before.

People are complaining about nu-Nancy

People who like comics are acclaiming the new Nancy as great

EVERYTHING at Somerset House was expensive

God yes. I got a badge. My 4yo got a Peanuts pen, and a massive temper tantrum on the floor of the gift shop because we wouldn't also let her get something else. I looked about the shop and several similar tantrums were also occurring with other people's children around us.

Th tee shirts were lovely. But... £40!!

i never fail to smile at the sight of charlie brown exclaiming "what a beautiful gory layout!"

The peanuts 50 years ago today Twitter feed is a joy btw. The last couple have been peppermint patty and snoopy ice skating.

ward thanks for taking those photos and uploading them! linus sleeping is kind of intense, i love it

Throttle Kill Hi!t Gouge Hate. I relate to insomniac Linus a little too much.

@peanuts50yrsago has jarred me out of a funk-spiral more than once.

EVERYTHING at Somerset House was expensive, including all of the merchandising. I sprang for the catalogue and some postcards. I thought that almost without exception, all the modern art pieces were terrible, and unnecessary. They had things like Spiegelman's Schulz strip - wow - and the odd strip by other cartoonists, but I would've like to have had more of the COMIC response to Peanuts - things like the Mad parodies, for example. But that's a small gripe set against the once in a lifetime chance to see so many originals up close and personal - I'm guessing they will be back in the museum after March, when the exhibition closes.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, January 10, 2019 3:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they should've included Matt/Seth/Brown's You're Short Fat and Ugly, Charlie Brown!

People are complaining about nu-Nancy, but that last one could be its blueprint

― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten)

people who complain about jaimes's nancy tend to be terrible human beings