I'll definitely see this, even at 38 I still love Peanuts fare.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 03:11 (eight years ago) link
did anyone see this movie?
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
wish i had a scanner, but this peanuts I actually had to cut out and save:Panel 1:Charlie Brown, awake in bed, staring at ceiling, snoopy sleeping draped over CB's feet: "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, can my generation look to the future with hope?"Panel 2:Charlie Brown, lying on side with very worried expression, and snoopy is now awake with identical furrowed brow:"Then, out of the dark, a voice comes to me that says, 'Why, sure... well, I mean... that is... it sort of depends... I mean... if... when... who... we... and..."October 23, 1995most of them were bad, but every once in a while... pow.― (Jon L), Friday, September 26, 2003 11:05 PM (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Panel 1:Charlie Brown, awake in bed, staring at ceiling, snoopy sleeping draped over CB's feet: "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, can my generation look to the future with hope?"
Panel 2:Charlie Brown, lying on side with very worried expression, and snoopy is now awake with identical furrowed brow:"Then, out of the dark, a voice comes to me that says, 'Why, sure... well, I mean... that is... it sort of depends... I mean... if... when... who... we... and..."
October 23, 1995
most of them were bad, but every once in a while... pow.
― (Jon L), Friday, September 26, 2003 11:05 PM (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there is actually a LOT of gold in the later peanuts.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:06 (eight years ago) link
i saw it:
this was actually quite lovely and sweet, i was pleasantly surprised.none of the fears expressed here and elsewhere came to pass, the voices sound right and the dialogue is authentically peanuts-ish and they didn't tack on any grand quest story. (and no, no crude jokes.) i was basically the target audience to be disappointed or infuriated by this movie and i wasn't, at all. unless you really hate the way the cgi looks, there's nothing here that any peanuts fan is going to hate.― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, November 9, 2015 6:44 PM (3 days ago)
none of the fears expressed here and elsewhere came to pass, the voices sound right and the dialogue is authentically peanuts-ish and they didn't tack on any grand quest story. (and no, no crude jokes.) i was basically the target audience to be disappointed or infuriated by this movie and i wasn't, at all. unless you really hate the way the cgi looks, there's nothing here that any peanuts fan is going to hate.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, November 9, 2015 6:44 PM (3 days ago)
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
it seems worth remembering that expectations were not high for the first major peanuts adaptation either:
A Charlie Brown Christmas was completed just ten days shy of its national broadcast premiere. All involved believed the special would be an unmitigated disaster. (Bill) Melendez first saw the completed animation at a showing in a theater in the days before its premiere, turning to his crew of animators and remarking, "My golly, we've killed it." Melendez was embarrassed, but one of the animators, Ed Levitt, was more positive regarding the special, telling him it was "the best special (he'll) ever make (...) This show is going to run for a hundred years." (Lee) Mendelson was similar in his assumptions of the show's quality, and when he showed the film to network executives in New York, their opinions were also negative. Their complaints included the show's slow pace, the music not fitting, and the animation too simple. "I really believed, if it hadn't been scheduled for the following week, there's no way they were gonna broadcast that show," Mendelson later said.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 12 November 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/vkp8ZC8.png
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
The movie completely embodied the peanuts strips: the characters we love, the exact same situations and quotes, jokes that make us smile but not laugh, and a comforting aura of fluff that is completely foreign to any child that likes to move it move It. Likewise, my excitement subsided by the end of the movie.
B-
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 12 November 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
Esp loved the part where Charlie and Linus get iinto a heated debate over whether fuel can melt steel
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Friday, 13 November 2015 02:31 (eight years ago) link
11/16/52
https://twitter.com/Hoganmag/status/666256171444150272
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 November 2015 18:05 (eight years ago) link
saw this w/ my six year old over the weekend. i didn't find it offensive or anything... too much slapstick-y kinda stuff ultimately, but it was mostly a pleasure to look at, and found an OK middle ground between the TV specials and the strip itself. six year old loved it.
― tylerw, Monday, 16 November 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
reading 97-98 now and noticed the rifle strip posted upthread being reused nine years later, along with the short sequence leading up to it. the dates on the strips have been changed but otherwise they are reprints. this is the first time in the fantagraphics books that i've noticed schulz doing this.
― new noise, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
did he do this at any other time? it's interesting given the unusually pointed nature of the strip.
― new noise, Tuesday, 22 December 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Huh. I haven't really looked through my copy much yet so I hadn't noticed that. I think they were running some reprints occasionally towards the end of his run when his health was failing but I don't know why Fanta would choose to reprint those strips. They usually run some sort of explanatory text when they make decisions like that.
― Some Pizza Grudge From Twenty Years Ago (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 December 2015 00:51 (eight years ago) link
ah, according to the peanuts faq in 1997 schulz took his one and only vacation and 35 strips that year were reprints.
― new noise, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 01:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/03/07/barack_obama_wrote_the_foreword_for_the_newest_complete_peanuts_installment.html
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 17:18 (eight years ago) link
oh whoa they're almost done!
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 00:25 (eight years ago) link
!!!
awesome
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, this is the final collection of strips, and then I guess there's a book of supplementary material coming out later this year (something to justify the existence of a final slipcase, if nothing else).
― Telephone Meatballs (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 02:24 (eight years ago) link
Note that volume 25 will also include THE ENTIRE RUN of Li'l Folks, and Volume 26 looks far more interesting than just a slipcase-filler: http://aaugh.com/wordpress/2016/02/you-can-and-should-order-complete-peanuts-26/
― glandular lansbury (sic), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 04:43 (eight years ago) link
Thanks! I hadn't seen much in the way of details for 25 and hadn't seen anything about 26. The Chip Kidd book that came out last year is lovely so I'm definitely down for another volume of ephemera.
― Telephone Meatballs (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:07 (eight years ago) link
I'd love to see a complete set of images from the View-Master slides but it would probably be weird to put non-Schulz work in a Schulz-centric book.
― Telephone Meatballs (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 05:13 (eight years ago) link
r.i.p. donna wold, the real little red-haired girl:
http://www.startribune.com/obituary-donna-wold-inspired-charles-schulz-s-little-red-haired-girl-for-peanuts/390807911/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 22 August 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/business/media/metlife-grounds-snoopy-curse-you-red-baron.html?_r=0
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Thursday, 20 October 2016 20:10 (seven years ago) link
that piece reads weirdly like an obituary, what w/ the odd use of past tense: "snoopy was the loyal pup..."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 20 October 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
I found it really sad and poignant, the end of an era
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 October 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
i liked this bit:
Consumers thought the “Peanuts” characters were friendly and approachable, Ms. Lee said, but did not associate them with traits like leadership and responsibility. Nor did the characters affect interest in buying insurance.
i was never even remotely attached to the idea of the peanuts gang hawking metlife, though i do think it made them seem like somehow the most cuddly and least corporate insurance company, without them having to do anything else. which was the intention. the bigger story of course is the fading popular visibility of these characters. i mean clearly the movie was trying to intervene in that process and maybe it succeeded? my sense is that their time of ubiquitous familiarity could be beginning to fade. but i don't browse the kids' and cartoons' sections of bookstores much - - - maybe they are still widely sold and read. the christmas special i'm sure is still in rotation but i have a feeling the rest of that lot have been supplanted, if TV even shows holiday specials anymore. it's weird, peanuts wasn't THAT huge a part of my childhood but imagining childhood without it is real weird.
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 20 October 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
The Los Angeles Times continues to run the series, so I imagine young kids are still getting exposed to it. I can now read the 60s ones and they're pretty good. I do a scan though, and if I see Snoopy with a thought balloon, or doing anything besides standing, walking, or laying on his doghouse, or a new character like Woodstock, etc, I skip it.
― nickn, Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/TQi2CWr.gif
http://i.imgur.com/4qCLWud.gif
― pplains, Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
all i really remember from jonathan franzen's essay on peanuts is that he uses the phrase "the unhilarious bird woodstock."
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:54 (seven years ago) link
great, now i'll never be able to think of him any other way
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 21 October 2016 03:20 (seven years ago) link
lol i should add that i think woodstock is a much better character than anyone in anything i've ever read by franzen
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 21 October 2016 03:34 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/71/44/05/71440504a330329c37c7cab836d822ef.gif
― esempiu (crüt), Friday, 21 October 2016 03:58 (seven years ago) link
The Los Angeles Times continues to run the series, so I imagine young kids are still getting exposed to it.
so many kids reading the LA Times every day
― sad, hombres (sic), Friday, 21 October 2016 06:55 (seven years ago) link
They may well grab the funnies page like we did in my day. I mean, who the hell else is reading some of those?
― nickn, Friday, 21 October 2016 06:59 (seven years ago) link
At least a dozen seeders on The Pirate Bay.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 October 2016 08:21 (seven years ago) link
Contemporaneous Peanuts always seemed a little stodgy when I was a kid but I was lucky enough at the time to find a stack of my uncle's paperback collections of the timeless and classic '50s and '60s material. That's the stuff the newspapers should be running if they want to build a new fanbase.
― CeCe Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 October 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
can anyone speak to whether or not kids read newspaper comics at all anymore? Abbott?
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 21 October 2016 14:09 (seven years ago) link
Lol, exactly the person to ask.
― Wig Wag Wanderer (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 21 October 2016 14:14 (seven years ago) link
can anyone speak to whether or not kids anyone reads newspaper comics at all anymore?
― pplains, Friday, 21 October 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
I do, but not every day
― sleeve, Friday, 21 October 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
I was the biggest comics page reader as a kid, but that section is shit now.
Worst thing to happen to the comics in the past 20 years? Introducing set fonts into the text balloons.
Hell yeah it makes things easier, but it looks like shit.
― pplains, Friday, 21 October 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
That's the stuff the newspapers should be running if they want to build a new fanbase.
That was Bill Watterson's argument: do editors think that fewer and smaller and shittier strips will somehow attract more readers? Wouldn't making a huge Sunday comics section, with one big comic per page, be a relatively cheap and easy way to increase circulation?
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 21 October 2016 14:26 (seven years ago) link
I honestly don't even get what the point of the comics section is anymore. With very few exceptions, it's been a cesspool for decades. Which seems increasingly shameful with each amazing old-school strip I discover. At least we're in the golden age of collections of classic strips!
― CeCe Penistongs (Old Lunch), Friday, 21 October 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
(i read the paper every day but haven't read strip sections in years as they don't exist in the non-tabloid dailies; somebody tell carlos slim to step up his game)
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 21 October 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
i know my niece was reading and cutting out strips from the sunday paper a few years ago.
― new noise, Friday, 21 October 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
can anyone speak to whether or not kids read newspaper comics at all anymore?
i had a daytime server job at a diner and it was so slow we spent most of the time playing cards or reading newspapers, comics was the favorite section next to sudoku.
that was 10 years ago tho. no idea if now people just play games on their phones.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 21 October 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
seems likely
― the notes the loon doesn't play (ulysses), Friday, 21 October 2016 15:00 (seven years ago) link
I still read the LAT comics (on paper!) but I'm old. I read Bizzaro, Candorville, the Latino one I can't remember the name of now (by Lalo Alcaraz), Doonesbury (they're also rerunning this one, think they're in the late 70s now), even Dilbert, and even after I found out what a tool Adams is, and two single-panel ones that I also can't remember.
― nickn, Friday, 21 October 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
What's the name of the fucking sub dilbert pirate one
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, 21 October 2016 21:39 (seven years ago) link
Overboard! I really liked both Overboard and Dilbert when I was a kid, I think partly because they were poorly drawn enough that I could draw reasonable approximations of the characters from both
― soref, Friday, 21 October 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link