Peanuts: Search and Destroy

all i really remember from jonathan franzen's essay on peanuts is that he uses the phrase "the unhilarious bird woodstock."

great, now i'll never be able to think of him any other way

lol i should add that i think woodstock is a much better character than anyone in anything i've ever read by franzen

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The Los Angeles Times continues to run the series, so I imagine young kids are still getting exposed to it.

so many kids reading the LA Times every day

They may well grab the funnies page like we did in my day. I mean, who the hell else is reading some of those?

The Los Angeles Times continues to run the series, so I imagine young kids are still getting exposed to it.

At least a dozen seeders on The Pirate Bay.

Contemporaneous Peanuts always seemed a little stodgy when I was a kid but I was lucky enough at the time to find a stack of my uncle's paperback collections of the timeless and classic '50s and '60s material. That's the stuff the newspapers should be running if they want to build a new fanbase.

can anyone speak to whether or not kids read newspaper comics at all anymore? Abbott?

Lol, exactly the person to ask.

can anyone speak to whether or not kids anyone reads newspaper comics at all anymore?

I do, but not every day

I was the biggest comics page reader as a kid, but that section is shit now.

Worst thing to happen to the comics in the past 20 years? Introducing set fonts into the text balloons.

Hell yeah it makes things easier, but it looks like shit.

That's the stuff the newspapers should be running if they want to build a new fanbase.

That was Bill Watterson's argument: do editors think that fewer and smaller and shittier strips will somehow attract more readers? Wouldn't making a huge Sunday comics section, with one big comic per page, be a relatively cheap and easy way to increase circulation?

I honestly don't even get what the point of the comics section is anymore. With very few exceptions, it's been a cesspool for decades. Which seems increasingly shameful with each amazing old-school strip I discover. At least we're in the golden age of collections of classic strips!

(i read the paper every day but haven't read strip sections in years as they don't exist in the non-tabloid dailies; somebody tell carlos slim to step up his game)

i know my niece was reading and cutting out strips from the sunday paper a few years ago.

can anyone speak to whether or not kids read newspaper comics at all anymore?

i had a daytime server job at a diner and it was so slow we spent most of the time playing cards or reading newspapers, comics was the favorite section next to sudoku.

that was 10 years ago tho. no idea if now people just play games on their phones.

seems likely

I still read the LAT comics (on paper!) but I'm old. I read Bizzaro, Candorville, the Latino one I can't remember the name of now (by Lalo Alcaraz), Doonesbury (they're also rerunning this one, think they're in the late 70s now), even Dilbert, and even after I found out what a tool Adams is, and two single-panel ones that I also can't remember.

What's the name of the fucking sub dilbert pirate one

Overboard! I really liked both Overboard and Dilbert when I was a kid, I think partly because they were poorly drawn enough that I could draw reasonable approximations of the characters from both

don't remember it bring this grim tbh

http://tanis.cso.niu.edu/comics/2009.02.08/Overboard-2009.02.08.gif

wow I had completely forgotten that strip

I had a look at some recent ones, and none of them seem to be about pirate stuff at all, the fact they're all pirates is all never mentioned and completely irrelevant to any of the jokes. I guess this is fairly common wrt long running comic strips once they exhaust all the jokes about their basic gimmick?

I'll stop talking about Overboard in the Peanuts thread now, my apologies to Charles Schultz

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

Well either that or diving headfirst into overtly Christian themes with a dash of Islamophobia sprinkled in.

Ummm... Funky Winkerbean to thread?

(apologizes to Schultz thread)

Never heard of Overboard before today, but that strip makes me want to check it out.

http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Charlie+brown+transcript+well+what+are+you+doing+here+go+on+home_54f538_4732034.jpg

That up there is the first overboard strip I've read that I haven't hated

Haha Overboard is terrible but I agree that is a good one

"how i hate him" is still how i think about charlie brown.
it was a long slow process from pig pen to charlie brown to linus in my life. i'm aiming for schroeder these days.

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