Peanuts: Search and Destroy

Only things I could give 2 seconds to these days is Mutts and Get Fuzzy.

A press release about this wondrous event.

Re-reading the article above, I see that it says over 50% of the first volume consists of stuff that's never been reprinted.

Sssexy!

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I went to the Schulz museum in Santa Rosa last year and it just busted me in two in a wonderful way.

sorry i'm british. no-one i know would give a sh-t over here.

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I always thought "Peanuts" was kind of a dud, until they started rerunning the old strips after Schulz's death, and I realized how hilarious they used to be. I'm looking forward to more of the "Complete Peanuts" books.

The other thing I noticed looking at the really early strips is just how much Charlie Brown looks like Calvin...or vice versa, really. Just put a bad haircut on some of those early Charlie Brown drawings, and you'd have Calvin.

"who broke into the liquor cabinet and made this mess?" "not me!"

If you guys don't read this, nobody will...

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I've finished the first volume, and I've got six more months left of Volume II. I miss Schulz more with every strip and count myself fortunate that I got to read his strips fresh and new every day in the newspaper.

Last night, I hit two strips that were a bit different. One had Shermy going through Charlie Brown's comic book collection: "Wow, you've got Revolutionary War stories, War of 1812 stories, Civil War stories, World War I stories, World War II stories, Korean War stories..." to which Charlie Brown responds, "I'm kinda worried about the next issue."

And Lucy being tethered to a rope going BWHAHM! in her imitation of a hydrogen bomb.

In the first volume, Schulz illustrated a comics rack stacked with titles like FEAR and HATE which I found a bit unsettling for a Peanuts strip. However, I do enjoy the fact that the volumes are being published by Fantagraphics, also home to Hate by Peter Bagge.

My box set of the first two volumes just arrived from Amazon today. I am a happy man.

but it's not hard to interpret the strip as eulogising various unhealthy traits - low self esteem, unrequited love, etc. i sometimes joke that i want to be linus but am more like charlie brown, but i've been wondering recently whether reading lots of peanuts strips as a kid might've instilled some subconscious belief that the misery depicted on a day-to-day basis in the comic was some kind of normalcy, that i may have transposed charlie brown's own anxieties upon my own.

that said, just finished the 1955-56 complete book, and getting ready to start on the 57-58 one. These are still really great strips!

In 2000, it became known that a fan of Peanuts had written Schulz a letter requesting that Charlotte Braun be removed. Schulz wrote back, promising to remove the character but asking the reader if she wanted to be responsible for "the death of an innocent child". The letter included a picture of Charlotte Braun with an ax in her head. The letter has been donated to the Library of Congress.