Peanuts: Search and Destroy

About 1,500 copies were sold within 11 days, and then sales slowed down to less than 300 the next year. After three years, the first edition was still available, almost 300 copies of which were lost when a fire broke out at the firm in December 1853. In 1855, a second printing of 250 copies was issued, in 1863, a third of 253 copies, and finally in 1871, a fourth printing of 277 copies, which sold so slowly that no new printing was ordered.[129] Moby-Dick was out of print during the last four years of Melville's life, having sold 2,300 in its first year and a half and on average 27 copies a year for the next 34 years, totaling 3,215 copies.

anyway Moby-Dick and the Bible both now out of copyright, whereas Peanuts will be entering the public domain in…what, 2070?

Copyright terms are a death sentence for culture basically

Intriguing:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/05/31/charles-schulz-hagemeyer/

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

https://i.imgur.com/1mh2KL1.jpg

Not at all like Lucy

I mean besides the obvious fact that Lucy's last name is "Van Pelt" and an unmarried grownup Lucy would not be named "Miss Hamhock"

It never occurred to me the Fantagraphics series would go out of print, it would be like Moby Dick or the Bible going out of print

...the slipcases only have a handful of sampled drawings of characters on them. Tip them gently up and shake carefully, and over 1,400 actual readable comic strips will slide out into your hand!

those strips are so odd. i knew schulz had thought of doing other types of strips over the years, but seeing him do that kind of workplace humor is just bizarre. and the characters are pretty unappealing. the humor is sexist in a standard 40s/50s way that schulz generally managed to avoid. (also, it's a little funny that schulz hated the name "peanuts" so much but apparently had no problem calling a strip "hagemeyer.")

the slipcases are neat but i gave up on the idea of trying to collect them a long time ago. tbh i haven’t been in a rush to pick up the volumes i’m missing, i feel like these would be the last fantagraphics books to ever go out of print.

They are redoing all of them in softcover, as well as doing larger-format volumes of colourized Sunday strips.

also there are still close to 17,000 more comics in the hardcovers than on the Christmas gift boxes, I promise

(the Sundays books have been running for eight years already, with only one volume left, and Bagge has recreated the colours using the original Schulz/UFS palettes - she's not adding gradients and lens flares)

https://i.imgur.com/5D6iRQN.png

Hey, can anyone help? I have this memory of a strip where Snoopy stays indoors and plays pool or billiards and listens to music on a rainy day, does anyone know how I would find such a thing, it's a weekend panel, I'm pretty sure.

not quite the same thing but: https://anaventures.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/dreary-fall-rain.gif

is it this one?

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1968/11/03

oh nice! this is an oldie but a goodie, deserves to be seen

https://i.imgur.com/hJkFnXO.png

file under "pictures of people who seem to have figured out how to live"

thunk click plunk

Yes! Thanks so much KM!

Oops, and JD!

yep, JD found it, i just like to run everything through imgur so we'll have a pretty image to look at on here (until imgur gets bought out by another company and turned into photobucket)

I think it must have been in the 'Snoopy Treasury' book I had as a kid.

Lord, please give me the confidence and precision of Charles Schultz drawing a rainstorm.

late era classic
http://i.imgur.com/TWg0RPi.png

hahaha

Wow

This made me go and leaf through my 1967/68 book, I love those Fantagraphics editions so much.

You’re reminding me that I need to return to my handful of FG editions

I bought the slipcase editions as they came out, then individual ones and then my purchasing of them kinda tailed off.

I'm up to around the mid-eighties I think, not sure if I need to go further, but I would like the rest.

I am committed to getting them all now that I only have like 6 or 8 to go

Charles Schulz in 1987 on why he hated his strip being titled Peanuts. pic.twitter.com/tIiZyhvl5X

— Minovsky (@MinovskyArticle) December 9, 2021

Lol at "Peanuts and his dog."

surely even schulz had to concede that he probably wouldn't have gotten into the louvre with a strip called "li'l folks."

What awful news.

https://fox5sandiego.com/entertainment/charlie-brown-voice-actor-dies-at-65/amp/

😞

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lY4IvvWJQ

https://i0.wp.com/www.route66news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Spike-min.jpg

A Charlie Brown Christmas has been a source of controversy in my house for years. I have loved it since I was a kid (it is as old as I am). My wife can't stand it, and my kids just think it's talky and boring.

yeah, the music and voices on those specials are so nostalgic for me, but I could see kids finding them dull & musty

i think they've aged well, as someone whos 20 years younger than them. kids finding old stuff boring is not really an indictment

I do understand how the extended conversations about the meaning of Christmas might be dull for kids raised on YouTube.

Dunno man the Thanksgiving and Christmas shows were 15-20 years old when I was watching them and I loved them. I agree that difference between a gap of 15-20 years and nearly 60 may be to far to overcome though. Children’s entertainment is a lot louder and fast paced now. Mr. Rogers was still the king of kid’s TV when I was a child.

Haha, and weirdly enough I thought Mr. Rogers was boring af when I was a kid. As a parent, I have a deep appreciation for what he was trying to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzu8aLpzIKw

HBD

Still a lodestar.

very nice

February 20, 1973 pic.twitter.com/tFZoLQnRkj

— Peanuts On This Day (@Peanuts50YrsAgo) February 21, 2023

(the two week lead up to that worth reading too)