Peanuts: Search and Destroy

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:

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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

the exhibition was glorious. but how expensive were those t shirts???

EVERYTHING at Somerset House was expensive, including all of the merchandising. I sprang for the catalogue and some postcards. I thought that almost without exception, all the modern art pieces were terrible, and unnecessary. They had things like Spiegelman's Schulz strip - wow - and the odd strip by other cartoonists, but I would've like to have had more of the COMIC response to Peanuts - things like the Mad parodies, for example. But that's a small gripe set against the once in a lifetime chance to see so many originals up close and personal - I'm guessing they will be back in the museum after March, when the exhibition closes.

I received the recent Dell Archives book (a collection of the early Dell comic book series) as a xmas gift which, while providing a decent + fun alternate perspective on the Peanuts world, unfortunately contains way way less original Schulz material than I'd been led to believe. But I guess on the plus side for those unaware of its existence, there's some Schulz stuff now available that you might not have seen before.

People are complaining about nu-Nancy

People who like comics are acclaiming the new Nancy as great

EVERYTHING at Somerset House was expensive

God yes. I got a badge. My 4yo got a Peanuts pen, and a massive temper tantrum on the floor of the gift shop because we wouldn't also let her get something else. I looked about the shop and several similar tantrums were also occurring with other people's children around us.

Th tee shirts were lovely. But... £40!!

i never fail to smile at the sight of charlie brown exclaiming "what a beautiful gory layout!"

The peanuts 50 years ago today Twitter feed is a joy btw. The last couple have been peppermint patty and snoopy ice skating.

ward thanks for taking those photos and uploading them! linus sleeping is kind of intense, i love it

Throttle Kill Hi!t Gouge Hate. I relate to insomniac Linus a little too much.

@peanuts50yrsago has jarred me out of a funk-spiral more than once.

EVERYTHING at Somerset House was expensive, including all of the merchandising. I sprang for the catalogue and some postcards. I thought that almost without exception, all the modern art pieces were terrible, and unnecessary. They had things like Spiegelman's Schulz strip - wow - and the odd strip by other cartoonists, but I would've like to have had more of the COMIC response to Peanuts - things like the Mad parodies, for example. But that's a small gripe set against the once in a lifetime chance to see so many originals up close and personal - I'm guessing they will be back in the museum after March, when the exhibition closes.

― Ward Fowler, Thursday, January 10, 2019 3:47 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they should've included Matt/Seth/Brown's You're Short Fat and Ugly, Charlie Brown!

People are complaining about nu-Nancy, but that last one could be its blueprint

― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten)

people who complain about jaimes's nancy tend to be terrible human beings

i mean, as great as peanuts was, the anti-peanuts brigade back in the day at least had _some_ valid arguments. it's the difference between arguing "comics should be less like 'peanuts' and more like 'the spirit'" and arguing "comics needs less olivia jaimes and more garret gilchrist"

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-peanuts-taught-me-about-queer-identity

oh wow
http://www2.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01149/pdfa/01149-00001.pdf

^ pdf download. letters from schultz to walt kelly.

<3. Hope Walt didn't ghost Schulz after that last letter.

<3 those letters, and wow, I missed this first time round, but it really hit me

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-peanuts-taught-me-about-queer-identity
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:01 (nine months ago)

the final peanuts strip appeared 20 years ago today, the morning after schulz passed away. still remember that news like it was yesterday.

same

still a hit w the kids
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Aw, lovely.

That final slipcase (containing '99-'00 and some other odds & sods collection) is the only one I don't have and have hesitated buying. I have a softcover collection of that final year somewhere, remember it being a little sad both in terms of the qualitative drop and the obvious unsteadiness of Schulz's hand toward the end.

i like how even the cat appears intrigued by the book!

"who is this smartass dog they're so excited about"

'needs more faron'

the final peanuts strip appeared 20 years ago today, the morning after schulz passed away. still remember that news like it was yesterday.

Do I ever.

https://thenib.com/when-peanuts-went-all-in-on-vaccinations/

It's been a year since the pandemic started, so let's do a "Peanuts" thread on the character who most fully embodies this strange time: Spike. pic.twitter.com/bxDngEI9vg

— Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) March 14, 2021

Good thread. I should read the later Peanuts; I stopped buying the Fantagraphic volumes after 73/74, thinking the later strips were sort of mellow and lame, but there's probably a lot going on there (even in the sense of "not a lot") that's worthwhile.

i have a real fondness for some 70s Peanuts just because those comprised a fair number of the little cheapie paperbacks we had lying around. i remember the sore-loser tennis champ "Crybaby Boobie" and, much more essentially, the "Mister Sack" storyline where Charlie Brown briefly becomes a beloved summer camp hero by putting a paper bag over his head and dispensing kindly advice to younger campers.

looking at the Fantagraphics site, I guess "Mister Sack" is from 73/74, while Crybaby Boobie is from 77/78, a period which even their ad copy struggles to really enliven. seems like Spike is really the major development that whole decade. still, i remember all this stuff... maybe it was heavily mined for the Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show? the prominent use of Rerun seems like a tell. apparently 79-80 has the long "Charlie Brown in the hospital" storyline which i think is pretty widely admired?

i will rep for 70's peanuts for sure.

yeah '80s is the fallow period. presumably vast wealth and nigh-universal t-shirt and greeting card success made his brain get soft, then he got old and cranky enough to turn weird in the '90s.

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— Charles M. Schulz Museum (@SchulzMuseum) May 4, 2021

Going back to that previous discussion, it was weird being born in the latter half of the 70s. I really got into Peanuts when I was 9-11 and was checking out old collections from the library and I remember many times being really disappointed by what was in the daily paper when compared to those collections, which I believe were heavily weighted towards the 70s.

Yeah, I got into Peanuts via old, yellowed paperbacks of '50s-'70s material sitting around my grandparents' house. It seemed like a whole other world from what was in the newspaper.

Finally bought the last Fanta slipcover set once I realized it has apparently gone OOP (didn't realize until it arrived that the post-2000 odds & sods book features all the Li'l Folks comics!), so it may be time to finally plow all the way through this opus.

My folks have an framed original strip in the guest bedroom, signed by Schulz; god knows where it came from.. not sure if it's worth anything as there were so many of them

it is worth something.

quite a bit i would imagine, depending on the era and who is in the strip

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that is a strange panel for a nationally syndicated comic strip! cannibalism, peyote and dynamite on a plane!

It never occurred to me the Fantagraphics series would go out of print, it would be like Moby Dick or the Bible going out of print

I wonder if my local comic store still has any copies on the shelves

hahaha, just noticed honey-roasted snoopy in the back! that is maybe the funniest nationally syndicated comic strip i've seen in a long time!

About 1,500 copies were sold within 11 days, and then sales slowed down to less than 300 the next year. After three years, the first edition was still available, almost 300 copies of which were lost when a fire broke out at the firm in December 1853. In 1855, a second printing of 250 copies was issued, in 1863, a third of 253 copies, and finally in 1871, a fourth printing of 277 copies, which sold so slowly that no new printing was ordered.[129] Moby-Dick was out of print during the last four years of Melville's life, having sold 2,300 in its first year and a half and on average 27 copies a year for the next 34 years, totaling 3,215 copies.