Peanuts: Search and Destroy

is it this one?

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1968/11/03

oh nice! this is an oldie but a goodie, deserves to be seen

https://i.imgur.com/hJkFnXO.png

file under "pictures of people who seem to have figured out how to live"

thunk click plunk

Yes! Thanks so much KM!

Oops, and JD!

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)

I think it must have been in the 'Snoopy Treasury' book I had as a kid.

Lord, please give me the confidence and precision of Charles Schultz drawing a rainstorm.

late era classic
http://i.imgur.com/TWg0RPi.png

hahaha

Wow

This made me go and leaf through my 1967/68 book, I love those Fantagraphics editions so much.

You’re reminding me that I need to return to my handful of FG editions

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.

I am committed to getting them all now that I only have like 6 or 8 to go

Charles Schulz in 1987 on why he hated his strip being titled Peanuts. pic.twitter.com/tIiZyhvl5X

— Minovsky (@MinovskyArticle) December 9, 2021

Lol at "Peanuts and his dog."

surely even schulz had to concede that he probably wouldn't have gotten into the louvre with a strip called "li'l folks."

What awful news.

https://fox5sandiego.com/entertainment/charlie-brown-voice-actor-dies-at-65/amp/

😞

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3lY4IvvWJQ

https://i0.wp.com/www.route66news.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Spike-min.jpg

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.

yeah, the music and voices on those specials are so nostalgic for me, but I could see kids finding them dull & musty

i think they've aged well, as someone whos 20 years younger than them. kids finding old stuff boring is not really an indictment

I do understand how the extended conversations about the meaning of Christmas might be dull for kids raised on YouTube.

Dunno man the Thanksgiving and Christmas shows were 15-20 years old when I was watching them and I loved them. I agree that difference between a gap of 15-20 years and nearly 60 may be to far to overcome though. Children’s entertainment is a lot louder and fast paced now. Mr. Rogers was still the king of kid’s TV when I was a child.

Haha, and weirdly enough I thought Mr. Rogers was boring af when I was a kid. As a parent, I have a deep appreciation for what he was trying to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzu8aLpzIKw

HBD

Still a lodestar.

very nice

February 20, 1973 pic.twitter.com/tFZoLQnRkj

— Peanuts On This Day (@Peanuts50YrsAgo) February 21, 2023

(the two week lead up to that worth reading too)

So many of these are stuck in my head forever, today I was thinking about the Sunday one where Charlie Brown goes to a baseball game, and it beautifully sets up all the anticipation and excitement, with no dialogue.

https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Peanuts-Original-Sunday-Page/AE3A5AC94B002B1B

ha! at both of those. and on the latter one MaresNest just posted, i also remember that one well.

so good

this is from 2015, most of you have probably read it. but i first read it last week, enjoyed it, and maybe you will too

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/selling-newspaper-comic-strip/

it's about Schulz, Watterson, and how they thought about art and commerce in the context of their strips

Oooh, I want to read that. I've never read much (or really anything) about Watterson. His work has always spoken for itself.

in the essay he probably comes across as taking things a weeeee bit too seriously, ha! but i enjoyed reading it all the same

Just as long as he hasn't descended into right wing politics. He is imho the GOAT.

haha, no right wing politics, thank god

and yeah, probably better left for a watterson thread but calvin and hobbes towered above a lot of the rest of my reading as a child (along with peanuts). i adored calvin and hobbes. curious how that new book is

Schultz and Kelly the only ones who came close.

*Schulz

The strip for Super Bowl Sunday: It's the last sports strip in "Peanuts" (from January 2, 2000). A little more than a month after it was published, Charles Schulz would pass away, and I've always considered this one to be about mortality, about realizing the end is drawing near. pic.twitter.com/ZdHtPYk1f9

— Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) February 12, 2023

Such finality in those last two panels...

Really the whole last row.

kind of the perfect ending, really.

oof

That 1973 storyline starts here, got to be one of the best examples of Schulz going fully dark, but still with jokes:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1973/01/29