GoComics
- http://www.gocomics.com - has , as of to-day , started re-running Schulz's PEANUTS from the beginning - colorized - as " PEANUTS BEGINS " . (BTW , remeber , the daily started considerably before the Sunday strip , so...)
It's on the front page to-day .
Thank you to the AAUGH ! blog for this'n .
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How long did Patty exist after he made Peppermint Patty?
There was nothing wrong with those two really. I would have preferred more of them and less of Spike talking to cacti.
Patty, Violet and Frieda -- who all appear in the classic A Charlie Brown Christmas -- eventually disappeared from the comic strip. It's just as well; they all were as nasty as Lucy, so who needed four of them?
It's interesting to see the evolution. Lucy was always the character I was scared of when I was a kid.
...But that's not up yet (and you have it in its true B&W) !
Who's the " red-shirt " :-) in January 6ths strip ?
It's interesting that , after the introductory ( " How I hate him !) strip , that C.B. has yet to appear again ~ Of course , Schulz would've been wanting to introduce the character(There's the whole mythos that he wanted toc call the strip " GOOD OL' CHARLIE BROWN " , too !.........) - It's been commented that PEANUTS' initial setting was , kind of , the not fully-populated , with not that many houses , new suburban housing developments of the post-WWII years not that populated as of yet , especially I guess?? when Schulz's world was the St. Paul area and not Santa Rosa - but Patty?? seems to be living in a city apartment/perhaps a townhouse?? in Jan 7th's Snoopy intro strip .
Richard Willis said:
...Oh , and someone in the first strip's cooment says that Schulz told him personally that Charlie Brown was never supposed to be bald ! :-0
As I understand it, Charles Schulz originally wanted to call the strip "Li'l Folks," but that name was taken.
Emerkeith Davyjack said:
...But that's not up yet (and you have it in its true B&W) !
It sounds like you're looking at GoComics without a subscription. With my (cheap) subscription I can see the strip from 1950 to the latest one, along with the many other strips on GoComics.
I've heard the editor picked Peanuts thinking that was slang for kids since Buffalo Bob Smith called the audience Peanuts in the Howdy Doody Show. Actually I believe it means something like small talk, that is polite conversation about nothing important or controversial, said when you don't know what to talk about (like discussing the weather), which of course was the opposite of what the comic ended up being about. Besides the existing comic Little Folks the editor felt Li'l Folks was too similar to Li'l Abner.
...MSA has complained here , in the pst , about CLASSIC PEANUTS' occasional use of slightly off-mark topical strips , running them at not quite the specific day they were written for .
Well , CP takes that considerably further ....They have been going through Halloween , and its aftermath , during this past week of - new color version - strips . I suppose that this will continue for as long as CP continues ?
Perhaps because the strip is (I assume) an exclusive to GoComics , they don't feel the same responsibility to " be correct " that they might feel were it appearin' in those ol'-fashioned , outmoded , doomed :-) analog newspapers...
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