Peanuts: Search and Destroy

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

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:

https://beta-static.photobucket.com/images/aa362/Andrew_Littlefield/0/fbd6f0ba-715a-4bb5-8721-a8fe22870457-original.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds

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