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
late era classichttp://i.imgur.com/TWg0RPi.png
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 4 October 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
hahaha
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 03:21 (two years ago) link
Wow
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 03:49 (two years ago) link
This made me go and leaf through my 1967/68 book, I love those Fantagraphics editions so much.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 09:34 (two years ago) link
You’re reminding me that I need to return to my handful of FG editions
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 10:31 (two years ago) link
I bought the slipcase editions as they came out, then individual ones and then my purchasing of them kinda tailed off.
I'm up to around the mid-eighties I think, not sure if I need to go further, but I would like the rest.
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
I am committed to getting them all now that I only have like 6 or 8 to go
― sleeve, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 15:21 (two years ago) link
Charles Schulz in 1987 on why he hated his strip being titled Peanuts. pic.twitter.com/tIiZyhvl5X— Minovsky (@MinovskyArticle) December 9, 2021
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 December 2021 15:40 (two years ago) link
Lol at "Peanuts and his dog."
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 10 December 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link
surely even schulz had to concede that he probably wouldn't have gotten into the louvre with a strip called "li'l folks."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 10 December 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
What awful news.
https://fox5sandiego.com/entertainment/charlie-brown-voice-actor-dies-at-65/amp/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 January 2022 05:03 (two years ago) link
😞
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 11:02 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lY4IvvWJQ
― Maresn3st, Monday, 4 April 2022 19:33 (two years ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/www.route66news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Spike-min.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 September 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
A Charlie Brown Christmas has been a source of controversy in my house for years. I have loved it since I was a kid (it is as old as I am). My wife can't stand it, and my kids just think it's talky and boring.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 2 September 2022 21:14 (one year ago) link
yeah, the music and voices on those specials are so nostalgic for me, but I could see kids finding them dull & musty
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 September 2022 21:35 (one year ago) link
i think they've aged well, as someone whos 20 years younger than them. kids finding old stuff boring is not really an indictment
― ciderpress, Friday, 2 September 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link