<3. Hope Walt didn't ghost Schulz after that last letter.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 8 December 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
<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)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 8 December 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
the final peanuts strip appeared 20 years ago today, the morning after schulz passed away. still remember that news like it was yesterday.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:02 (four years ago) link
same
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 14 February 2020 06:28 (four years ago) link
still a hit w the kidshttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49535052922_6f8ed3f677_w.jpg
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 February 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― Sammo Hazuki's Tago Mago Cantina (Old Lunch), Friday, 14 February 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
i like how even the cat appears intrigued by the book!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 14 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
"who is this smartass dog they're so excited about"
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
'needs more faron'
― mookieproof, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
Do I ever.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
https://thenib.com/when-peanuts-went-all-in-on-vaccinations/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 26 August 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 13:33 (three years ago) link
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.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 19:57 (three years ago) link
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?
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
i will rep for 70's peanuts for sure.
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
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.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
📅 Today marks the 60th anniversary of Lucy’s “The Doctor Is In” sign first appearing on her psychiatry booth on 5/4/1961. 🎟️ Sign up for Saturday's FREE EVENT, "The Doctor Is In: Exploring Mental Health Through Comics!" Register: https://t.co/bwNPpq9cXN pic.twitter.com/Hue3Q4qLiH— Charles M. Schulz Museum (@SchulzMuseum) May 4, 2021
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
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.
― Slime Goobody (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 4 May 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
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
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
it is worth something.
― visiting, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link
quite a bit i would imagine, depending on the era and who is in the strip
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 May 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
https://safr.kingfeatures.com/api/img.php?e=png&s=c&file=Qml6YXJyby8yMDIxLzA1L0JpemFycm9faHQuMjAyMTA1MzBfMTUzNi5wbmc=
― nickn, Sunday, 30 May 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
that is a strange panel for a nationally syndicated comic strip! cannibalism, peyote and dynamite on a plane!
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link
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!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
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.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
anyway Moby-Dick and the Bible both now out of copyright, whereas Peanuts will be entering the public domain in…what, 2070?
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
Copyright terms are a death sentence for culture basically
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
Intriguing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/05/31/charles-schulz-hagemeyer/
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/lcQKMMN.jpg
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/1mh2KL1.jpg
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
Not at all like Lucy
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 18:49 (two years ago) link
I mean besides the obvious fact that Lucy's last name is "Van Pelt" and an unmarried grownup Lucy would not be named "Miss Hamhock"
...the slipcases only have a handful of sampled drawings of characters on them. Tip them gently up and shake carefully, and over 1,400 actual readable comic strips will slide out into your hand!
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
those strips are so odd. i knew schulz had thought of doing other types of strips over the years, but seeing him do that kind of workplace humor is just bizarre. and the characters are pretty unappealing. the humor is sexist in a standard 40s/50s way that schulz generally managed to avoid. (also, it's a little funny that schulz hated the name "peanuts" so much but apparently had no problem calling a strip "hagemeyer.")
the slipcases are neat but i gave up on the idea of trying to collect them a long time ago. tbh i haven’t been in a rush to pick up the volumes i’m missing, i feel like these would be the last fantagraphics books to ever go out of print.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
They are redoing all of them in softcover, as well as doing larger-format volumes of colourized Sunday strips.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
also there are still close to 17,000 more comics in the hardcovers than on the Christmas gift boxes, I promise
(the Sundays books have been running for eight years already, with only one volume left, and Bagge has recreated the colours using the original Schulz/UFS palettes - she's not adding gradients and lens flares)
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 23:51 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/5D6iRQN.png
― mookieproof, Sunday, 22 August 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
Hey, can anyone help? I have this memory of a strip where Snoopy stays indoors and plays pool or billiards and listens to music on a rainy day, does anyone know how I would find such a thing, it's a weekend panel, I'm pretty sure.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 October 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
not quite the same thing but: https://anaventures.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/dreary-fall-rain.gif
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
is it this one?
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1968/11/03
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
oh nice! this is an oldie but a goodie, deserves to be seen
https://i.imgur.com/hJkFnXO.png
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
file under "pictures of people who seem to have figured out how to live"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 4 October 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
thunk click plunk
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:05 (two years ago) link
Yes! Thanks so much KM!
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 October 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
Oops, and JD!
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 October 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
yep, JD found it, i just like to run everything through imgur so we'll have a pretty image to look at on here (until imgur gets bought out by another company and turned into photobucket)
― typo hell #10: i didn't think any of them really off badly (Karl Malone), Monday, 4 October 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
I think it must have been in the 'Snoopy Treasury' book I had as a kid.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 October 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
Lord, please give me the confidence and precision of Charles Schultz drawing a rainstorm.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 4 October 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link