As 'Peanuts' turn 60, Schulz family plans future
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sctaber56
Charles Schultz always represented what is the best about humanity in his wonderfully heart-warming and true-to-life comic strip. What was true 60 years ago is still true today. Such a gifted genius!
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pamelot
I agree with sctaber56. And, with the magic of Vince Guaraldi's musical genius; added to the animated cartoon series, totally brilliant!
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MrDog
Could you please explain to me what is so great about Peanuts?? It's the most over-rated thing EVER in the history of EVERYTHING. I have read tons of strips and never laughed once, never thought it was "heart-warming and true-to-life ", every time I read it I just thought it was pointless drivel.
Maybe it's just an American thing, that Americans like. I think it's garbage and have no idea why he managed to keep it going for so long when it has no content what-so-ever.
Only someone associated with it could say something so stupid.
Is it helping now too? No, I don't think it is, is it. If it's so "wonderful" it should be, but it's not. So that's a load of BS.
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smartacus
MrDog
Peanuts is immensely popular and quite profound in many cases. Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean the characters and the messages are not popular. So don't go calling something you do not understand BS.
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Zenny11
The way I see Peanuts.
Yes, the characters are kids but they talk about adults issues and are very tongue in cheek.
Why, because if it had run with adult characters initially it would NOT have taken off.
So the characters actually represent adults and our daily conflicts and problems.
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Fadamor
Amazing. All these years I thought there was a "t" in his last name, and was all set to jump on here and berate the article's author for goofing it up. Well if he got it wrong, then so did the website for the Charles Schulz Museum. Meh. I guess it was me who was wrong. (Someone make a note of this... I admitted I was wrong.) :-)
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Fadamor
MrDog, you're barking up the wrong tree. Just because you're unable to comprehend what millions of others are able to does not make it "a load of BS."
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ebisen
Mrdog, after reading your comment I'm afraid Peanuts is abusing your intelligence in a unfair way.
Anyway, happiness is a peanut butter sandwich...
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paulinusa
Last time I was in Tokyo/Harajuku Kiddyland they had quite an extensive display of merchandise, so evidently the stuff still sells.
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Laguna
"Sometimes, I lie awake at night and I ask, 'where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
-Charles Schulz
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sctaber56
@Fadamor: OMG, you're absolutely right - there IS no "T" in Mr. Schulz's last name. That makes at least two of us who've been wrong.
I've been to the Charles Schulz Museum a couple of times in Santa Rosa, CA and it's a wonderful tribute to his work and life. Besides an extensive display of various Peanuts strips he created over his long career, there's a recreation of his workspace with his actual desk and other furnishings. My favorite exhibit is the section of wall taken from an early house he owned where he'd painted pre-Peanuts versions of Charlie Brown and other familiar characters on the bedroon wall of his then young children. Precious and priceless! There's also a Snoopy-themed labyrinth in the garden outside which reflects the artist's strong Christian beliefs.
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Ah_so
Peanuts wraps America up in an idealised 50s/60s blanket - perhaps the era when the USA felt most comfortable with itself and still longs for.
It has the same appeal as Forest Gump had in the mid-1990s.
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nutsagain
MrDog: Bah Humbug!
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Newsman
Wow -- how can someone be called MrDog and not like Snoopy? :)
But in MrDog's defense, I would have to agree to some degree. Strips from Schulz's later years left me with the feeling that he was in part just going through the motions. Other cartoonists were just in absolute awe that Schulz did all of his own penciling, inking, lettering, and coloring (the latter for the Sunday strips) day after day, year after year, for nearly 50 years. Except for when he was hospitalized for a heart attack, I don't think he ever missed a deadline (and even then he might have had some strips in reserve for just such an emergency.) If any of us did the same job nonstop for 50 years, I'm sure we'd start to pile up some off days, too.
But the earlier strips, particularly from the late '50s and most of the '60s, are in the main priceless.
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EbiChiri
The Schulz fam is all about the dough. Ole Charlie S made the most money of a cartoonist when he was alive, like $84 mill a year and they want to keep that cash cow a' mooin' ! Snoopy is as sold out as the Donald. Duck that is.
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space_monkey
I'll take Farside and Southpark any day. I'll leave peanuts for the elephants.
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Fadamor
Well, Farside is a single panel comic and as became obvious over the years, was just as repetitive as Peanuts was. SouthPark is animation, not a comic, and therefore is not comparable to comics. Southpark takes 20 minutes to present what comic artists have to present in 3 or 4 panels.
For off-the-wall comic enjoyment, I'd probably cast my vote for "Calvin and Hobbes" or "Bloom County".
Ah_So, I'm not sure I agree. Peanuts had many negative storylines that still resonate today: bullying (Lucy with just about everybody); unrequited love (most notably Charlie and the "little red-headed girl"); insecurity (Linus with his blanket); and incompetence (pretty much anything Charlie tries to do). I wouldn't call that idealized at all.
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Cliffy
Yes, I vote for "Calvin and Hobbes" as well. As a drone working in an office, I also enjoy Dilbert.
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nutsagain
Interesting, I liked the 60s Peanuts strips a lot and yes, it did become outdated and repetitive especially in the last couple of decades. Calvin and Hobbes always seemed fresh and Bill Watterson to his credit, wanted to keep it this way and quit whilst ahead. He also refused to allow Calvin and Hobbes to become commercialized which says a lot as he could have made squillions. I agree, Shulz was in it for the money, especially later on.
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