The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’
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The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’
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#3Chris Ware is a fantastic author of comics. His "Building Stories" is truly a masterpiece of the form and I highly recommend it to all.
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#4Schulz should have quit in the 70's. He dragged it on for far too long.
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#5I grew up reading newspaper comics during the “Calvin and Hobbes” era. I read Peanuts but I never understood its appeal as seemed extremely dull.
Later I read a collection of Peanuts from around 1955 and it was incredible. Kinda like early Simpsons
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#6Chris Ware is a fantastic author of comics. His "Building Stories" is truly a masterpiece of the form and I highly recommend it to all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Stories
That looks great, reminds me of Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, which was used as textbook in my intro to philosophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics
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#7What a beautiful short take on how we build our own work, unknowingly at the time, by looking at our predecessors' work.
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#8Schulz should have quit in the 70's. He dragged it on for far too long.
He would have died sooner. I say that only partly in jest. When he was going to retire, he wrote the last strip ahead of publication and people were wondering what it would be. It was basically a thank you to the fans. He died the day it ran in the papers.
Edit: he died the day before.
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#9Schulz should have quit in the 70's. He dragged it on for far too long.
He would have died sooner. I say that only partly in jest. When he was going to retire, he wrote the last strip ahead of publication and people were wondering what it would be. It was basically a thank you to the fans. He died the day it ran in the papers. Edit: he died the day before.
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#10I grew up reading newspaper comics during the “Calvin and Hobbes” era. I read Peanuts but I never understood its appeal as seemed extremely dull. Later I read a collection of Peanuts from around 1955 and it was incredible. Kinda like early Simpsons
I grew up in the same era, thinking the same thing. I'll have to go check that out.