New Yorker on Comics

that's because everyone knows the strip turned shit when it was about a dog and his pretend adventures with a little bird (also because those strips ran years after they had a chance to be a formative influence on the generation of cartoonists that produced the modern indie comic - even those reading in the '70s have always talked of being far more influenced by the concentrated intake of work in paperback reprints of '60s strips, rather than the occasional viewing of weak '70s work at the breakfast table before Dad came down and claimed the newspaper)

i also think the only thing really wrong with '70s peanuts is that it isn't '60s peanuts - i.e. still better than all but a handful of all other strips ever. the sunday page where charlie brown is sitting on a bench reminiscing about the times he used to sit and watch the little red-haired girl (who has apparently moved away; one of the very few times peanuts acknowledged the passing of time) is possibly the most moving thing schulz ever drew.

seeing a lot of uproar on FB over this one today:

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Uproar from adults whose parents still pay their rent?

The thread for making up fake New Yorker cartoons