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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

May 9-14, 1955: That's the way it goes

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Note: Although this is still solidly Peanuts' classic period, there are sometimes strips of which there isn't much interesting to sa...
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Monday, February 6, 2012

April 11-16, 1955: Phooey to you Schroeder

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April 11 Charlie Brown doesn't have nearly the fixation on D. Crockett as Schroeder does on Beethoven, but his embarrassment makes the s...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

January 10-15, 1955: Lucy is hard on toys

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January 10 A disturbing insight into Lucy's attitude towards property. January 11 For some reason this strip reminds me of that disco ve...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

December 6-11, 1954: The Fussbudget Sonata

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December 6 This is an intensified version of a previous snubbing strip.  Charlie Brown still hasn't quite started taking snubs to hea...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Week of August 23-28, 1954: Charlie Brown still has an ego

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August 23 Only the second bit of negativity we've heard from Pig-Pen, the first being in his introduction. August 24 That's not Snoo...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Sunday, July 18, 1954: The nature of nothing

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Read this strip at gocomics.com. From the Wikipedia article on Virgil Thomson : "[...] Thomson was famous for his revival of the rare t...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Week of May 17-22, 1954: Dirges and Disappointments

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May 17 : Snoopy used to do more dog-like things, like howl at the moon. Most dogs don't bother pro-rating the volume of their howling a...
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Sunday, May 8, 2011

February 5, 1954: Charlie Brown has to be honest

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Read this strip at gocomics.com. This strip is a counterpart to earlier strips about the disparity in musical knowledge between Schroeder...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, 1953

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December 25, 1953 : December 31, 1953 : The Christmas strip is another message to the reader, which I don't think generally work for...
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Sunday, March 20, 2011

November 23 & 28, December 31 1953: Sleepy Snoopy

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November 23, 1953:  November 28, 1953: December 31, 1953: I'm taking a couple of these out of order to collect some thematically simi...
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Thursday, March 17, 2011

November 20, 1953: "Aus Der Tiefe"

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Read this strip at gocomics.com. There are certain personality characteristics that Peanuts characters exhibit.  Here is exhibited one th...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

November 12, 1953

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Read this strip at gocomics.com. This is the second instance of the " Snoopy dance " that I count, and it's livelier and m...
Friday, January 21, 2011

September 22, 1953: Hey, goodnight kid!

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Schroeder's awesome. (Although it does look a bit like his piano has an oversized hood ornament.)
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Sunday, September 13, 1953: Three shades of green

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Another bit of metaphorical art in the title panel. This is one of my favorite strips, Schroeder's personality comes out very vividly...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

September 11, 1953: Turn your head, Ludwig

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I'm rather fond of this one. It's a good example of an idea you simply don't see in other comic strips. What is it about it ...
Tuesday, January 4, 2011

September 4, 1953: Wash your mouth out with soap young man

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Sacrilege!
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

August 11, 1953: Schroeder and Snoopy

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I'm at one of those points again where I feel like I need to link every strip. It's because this is such a formative period in Pe...