― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 6 January 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
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!
― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 February 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― My Psychic Friends Are Strangely Silent (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 00:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 01:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:41 (eighteen years ago) link
LA Locals, currently there is a comics exhibit at the Hammer museum in Westwood. "Chuck" Schultz is on display with many of his contemporaries and even some pre- contemps. Some of it's trite, but others are outstanding in their oblique and darker references. Worth a look since Thursday's admission is FREE! Lichtenstein's Polaroid's are awesome too.
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 04:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 22 February 2006 07:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link
http://wires.thehold.net/files/anime.jpg
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 June 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Monday, 5 June 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 5 June 2006 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, golly, I could go on about a particularly fantastic moment in that most recent volume, but I'm a little too tired to right now. Remind me later.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 5 June 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link
I've just now completed a crucial rite of passage, after about 13 years in limbo. When I were a nipper, we were given a VCR copy of 'Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back)', missing the first five and last twenty minutes. As a kid, I absolutely loved it and watched it time after time, memorising the dialogue, artwork and music as I did so. Tonight I watched the whole thing for the first time. It held up beautifully, although the end was a little rushed. Most of it conveyed a certain kind of accident-prone, angst-ridden early youth that I was all too familiar with, although seeing it now, my sympathies switched to Snoopy and Woodstock, who had by far the most whimsical, philosophical, adult perspective on things. One golden moment I hadn't seen before was Woodstock emerging from a fire hose bearing his violin, which he then proceeded to play. One golden moment I'd just missed as a child was that whilst the boys + animals watched an in-flight movie called 'Happy Bunnies', the girls watched one called something like 'Naughty Esmerelda'! Ahem. And what was all that French swearing in the automobile wreck! 'Oooh le con' indeed...
― Just got offed, Sunday, 15 July 2007 20:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i regret to tell you that "naughty marietta" (which i'm pretty sure was the movie) isn't quite as naughty as one would hope: http://imdb.com/title/tt0026768/
― J.D., Monday, 16 July 2007 04:40 (sixteen years ago) link
ILX's JD is a true star for repping for late period Peanuts
― A B C, Monday, 16 July 2007 04:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't imagine how hard I'd lose my shit watching Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown today, I can barely deal with first season episodes of Frasier
― A B C, Monday, 16 July 2007 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
And what was all that French swearing in the automobile wreck! 'Oooh le con' indeed...
i always thought they were shouting "oooh! le car!" - seeing as charlie brown's request for un pain was phrased as "une loaf de bread".
the gang visit wimbledon too in this one. i still prefer 'a boy named charlie brown' though.
― stevie, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
There's also the bit where they can't understand the guy offering them steak and kidney pie.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
and yet they can understand teachers who talk like muted trumpets...
― stevie, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Well duh, those are AMERICAN teachers.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Then again I suppose Othmar could be Lithuanian in background or something.
Trombonian.
― Casuistry, Monday, 16 July 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
This I believe.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski
Amazingly, not bad as I'd thought it would have been. Brilliant even.
― Roz, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz@"Good grief, he thought. What a cunt. "
― The Wayward Johnny B, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 11:42 (sixteen years ago) link
goddammit they are putting out these complete peanuts volumes faster than I can afford them! I only have 1-4 and haven't even gotten to the 60s yet :(
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
search: http://images.skyllo01.multiply.com/image/6/photos/187/400x400/34/tyra_grossaroo.gif?
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
BAH
search: http://images.skyllo01.multiply.com/image/6/photos/187/400x400/34/tyra_grossaroo.gif
wtf
fuck never mind
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
buy the boxes Shakey, they're cheaper and you only have to keep up with one a year instead of two.
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
that's what I did with vol 3-4... maybe I'll get 5-6 for Xmas...
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 22:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Is the new one out? I thought it wasn't coming out for a few more weeks.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
all I know is my volumes end at '59 and now they're like on '66 or some shit.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
also watch for huge new biography of schulz by david michaelis, 6 years in the making, next month
― J.D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
am i the only one who's read the michaelis bio yet? quite controversial, owing to its open treatment of schulz's lifelong depression, his shortcomings as a dad, and even his sex life. his kids aren't happy with it.
i finished reading it this morning. it's well researched and not at all as sensationalized as that description makes it sound, but michaelis spends way too much time on rambling, discursive, and frankly unconvincing analysis of schulz's personality. it often reads like a (very) rough first draft, before a sensible editor made him take all that bullshit out. he also leaves WAY too much out - he spends 30 (admittedly gripping) pages on schulz's extra-marital affair, but virtually ignores the last 25 years of "peanuts."
the revelation that schulz reacted to his divorce by having charlie brown kick lucy off the baseball team is worth the price of the book, though.
― J.D., Friday, 26 October 2007 09:17 (sixteen years ago) link
also the story about him calling garfield "the ugliest, most insulting and hateful character i've ever seen."
― J.D., Friday, 26 October 2007 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha! This sounds like a good read for a long flight.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Friday, 26 October 2007 09:24 (sixteen years ago) link