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Cartoonist Tributes to Charles Schulz

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Re: Cartoonist Tributes to Charles Schulz

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Post by Natsu »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #6

The thing that most stood out to me about Charles Schultz is the thing least stood out - consistency. Peanuts was where and what was expected for 50 years. I can't say he's an example to me because that regularity of quality is too far beyond what I'm capable of. At best I could maybe model Piers Anthony where I work constantly and some of it is crap and some not. All that said, happy posthumous 100 to my first ever…

Oof, Piers is a hard one. I loved the Xanth books as a kid, but looking at some of his stuff again as an adult, he comes off as incredibly creepy, especially knowing about some of his non-Xanth works. It really casts that 1-800-HIPIERS hotline in another light.

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Post by thaumasiotes »

From the Big Nate strip:

> Some people might say comics aren't important, but those people are blockheads. Y'know what I say to them? Read "Peanuts."

> Charlie Brown never wins a game or gets a valentine or kicks the football, but he's a champ in my book.

I still can't understand how the 2015 film decided that Charlie Brown would strike up a relationship with the little red-haired girl. It gives the movie a happy ending.

But if Peanuts has one message, it's that Charlie Brown doesn't get happy endings. That ending to the film flew in the face of everything that ever happened in the comic strip.

Re: Cartoonist Tributes to Charles Schulz

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Post by mongol »

I don't think I have understood Peanuts. Granted, my parents never subscribed to a newspaper where it was published, so I only intermittently got in touch with it. I understand it may be something you grow to love as you develop a relationship to the characters?

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Post by RunSet »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #6

The thing that most stood out to me about Charles Schultz is the thing least stood out - consistency. Peanuts was where and what was expected for 50 years. I can't say he's an example to me because that regularity of quality is too far beyond what I'm capable of. At best I could maybe model Piers Anthony where I work constantly and some of it is crap and some not. All that said, happy posthumous 100 to my first ever…

I feel the same way about Hank Ketcham, who I have only recently come to appreciate. It is easy to lump Dennis the Menace in with Family Circus and Marmaduke in the "unfunny single panel comics" set but Ketcham's artwork is so lively that it is often hilarious in its own right and contains amusing details that a first glance might miss.

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Post by garyrob »

mongol wrote: post #27

I don't think I have understood Peanuts. Granted, my parents never subscribed to a newspaper where it was published, so I only intermittently got in touch with it. I understand it may be something you grow to love as you develop a relationship to the characters?

Yes
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