Wednesday, April 13, 2011

January 2, 1954: Charlie Brown is not a good cartoonist

Read this comic at gocomics.com.

Have we seen enough about Charlie Brown's failings as a cartoonist yet?  They're entertainingly meta, but still, we've seen the joke before.

5 comments:

  1. I don't think anyone else would have put that particular punchline or phrased it in quite that manner. That's what really makes the strip for me.

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  2. I remember seeing this strip as a kid, and not getting it. I had to look up who Handel was, and only then did it sorta made sense. Yet another strip that assumes a fair amount of classical music literacy on the part of the reader...

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  3. I adore the way Charlie Brown carries the strip slung over his shoulder.

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  4. @njguy54: True, but I like that he didn't let a reader's possible lack of knowledge scare him off. I learned far more about classical music and composers from reading Peanuts and watching Looney Tunes when I was a kid than I ever learned from any "arts appreciation" class at school, and that was because they made it fun - and funny.

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  5. This is only the 5th time we've seen it, tops.

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