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And that’s before you even touch the whole anti-segregation angle running through the story.
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I mean, even originally, Garfield strips had some substance, but Jim Davis really liked money, I think...
Garfield was conceived from the get go as a cash grab devoid of artistic merit. (And that's fine by me, nobody is forcing anyone to consume Garfield.)
> Charlie Brown may have been as popular as any character in all of literature Was he? Maybe this is true inside the US but from outside the US, I've always viewed the character as a peculiarly American artefact – something I was aware of but never really read or watched. This seemed to be reinforced by most major Charlie Brown titles seemingly tied to other American customs like Halloween and baseball.
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Watterson refused to allow Calvin & Hobbes to be commercialized, other than the books. Those crass stickers are unauthorized knock-offs.
Amazing - these were Circle K chain stores selling these stickers. How was this not enforced?!
They have (as I understand it) challenged and stopped some folks from doing things, but something like the Calvin sticker was pretty ubiquitous. Even then, some later ones were particularly bad Calvins.
I had a vinyl sticker of Spaceman Spiff on the back of my motorcycle helmet. I bought it at a motorcycle race back in the 90s.
I'm a musician, and something I've noticed is that children no longer recognize the "peanuts" theme song.
Newspaper comics haven’t been relevant to anyone 30. By the time you were old enough to read them or care about reading them, smartphones were in the scene.
Interestingly, Peanuts started with a focus on Shermy and Violet as the 'straight men' and young(er) Charlie Brown as the comic upstart. Snoopy shows up fairly soon, but he doesn't even seem to be CB's pet for the first while. It's fascinating to see Lucy, Linus, Schroeder and Sally grow from tots or babies to the developed characters we know today.
https://kotaku.com/how-snoopy-killed-peanuts-1724269473
about how Peanuts lost it's edge once the "cute" popular dog was introduced, whereas prior it used to be more subversive, philosophical/theoretical with darker material.
I'm a musician, and something I've noticed is that children no longer recognize the "peanuts" theme song.
Newspaper comics haven’t been relevant to anyone 30. By the time you were old enough to read them or care about reading them, smartphones were in the scene.
I'm a musician, and something I've noticed is that children no longer recognize the "peanuts" theme song.
Newspaper comics haven’t been relevant to anyone 30. By the time you were old enough to read them or care about reading them, smartphones were in the scene.
I'm a musician, and something I've noticed is that children no longer recognize the "peanuts" theme song.
So no idea what the song is about, unfortunately. I don't even know it has animation version.
I'm a musician, and something I've noticed is that children no longer recognize the "peanuts" theme song.
Snoopy or Peanuts in general is (was) very famous in my country (at least for my age) but I only read it in comic. So no idea what the song is about, unfortunately. I don't even know it has animation version.