Read this strip over at gocomics.com.
Charlie Brown's patience with Lucy over her misguided project begins to wear down here.
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Showing posts with label night. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
February 18, 1954: Lucy's quest
Read this strip over at gocomics.com.
Charlie Brown's patience with Lucy over her misguided project begins to wear down here.
Saturday, May 14, 2011
February 8-12, 14, 1954: The missing strips are back
The strips I mentioned yesterday as having been missing are back, so let's have a look at them.
February 9, 1954:
A nice inversion of the usual way these Schroeder vs. Charlie Brown strips go, with Schroeder proving to be the one who annoys Charlie Brown. One of Schulz's particular observational gifts appears to be being able to see all sides of a situation. No character is wholly admirable or horrible.
Scribble of ire!
February 10, 1954:
Snoopy vs., not the yard, but the living room. Panel two is weird; it seems obvious that Snoopy is trying to pick the top up, but it's not something we often see Snoopy do. Panel three isn't immediately readable, but thinking about it I think Snoopy is being pushed away by the top's rotational force.
February 11, 1954:
Charlie Brown returns to the idea of perfection. At first he thought he was perfect. Now he aspires to perfection. Soon he'll realize his faults (and those he doesn't see Lucy will be happy to point out) and despair of ever overcoming them. Isn't this how it goes in real life? There is no truth more clearly and bitterly seen than that which comes from disappointing disillusionment.
February 12, 1954:
Fence gags aren't common in Peanuts, but for some reason Schulz decided now was a good time for one. There's another coming soon, with Patty and Lucy.
Sunday, February 14, 1954:
Lucy counting the stars. This is the first one where she seems to be serious about it. Interestingly here, the sky is not represented as solid black; instead the grass in the background is solid. You can only really tell it's night from the characters' words and the moon hanging in the sky.
February 9, 1954:
A nice inversion of the usual way these Schroeder vs. Charlie Brown strips go, with Schroeder proving to be the one who annoys Charlie Brown. One of Schulz's particular observational gifts appears to be being able to see all sides of a situation. No character is wholly admirable or horrible.
Scribble of ire!
February 10, 1954:
Snoopy vs., not the yard, but the living room. Panel two is weird; it seems obvious that Snoopy is trying to pick the top up, but it's not something we often see Snoopy do. Panel three isn't immediately readable, but thinking about it I think Snoopy is being pushed away by the top's rotational force.
February 11, 1954:
Charlie Brown returns to the idea of perfection. At first he thought he was perfect. Now he aspires to perfection. Soon he'll realize his faults (and those he doesn't see Lucy will be happy to point out) and despair of ever overcoming them. Isn't this how it goes in real life? There is no truth more clearly and bitterly seen than that which comes from disappointing disillusionment.
February 12, 1954:
Fence gags aren't common in Peanuts, but for some reason Schulz decided now was a good time for one. There's another coming soon, with Patty and Lucy.
Sunday, February 14, 1954:
Lucy counting the stars. This is the first one where she seems to be serious about it. Interestingly here, the sky is not represented as solid black; instead the grass in the background is solid. You can only really tell it's night from the characters' words and the moon hanging in the sky.
Monday, April 18, 2011
January 9, 1954: Counting stars gaiden
Read this strip at gocomics.com.
Charlie Brown's exasperation at Lucy counting stars is one of the more iconic strip themes of early Peanuts. So far by my count we've only seen one Lucy star counting strip, and she more guesses than counts in that one.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Halloween, 1953: He should have gone as the ghost of a mattress
This is more of a general comic strip joke than a specifically Peanuts joke. A kid does something based on ignorance that turns out badly for him. I could imagine Sluggo making this mistake. (Not that there's anything wrong with Sluggo!)
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
March 17, 1952: Lucy Lucy Quite Contrary
This is Lucy's fifth strip, and the earliest that tends to show up in abridged anthologies seeing as how it's the earliest glimmer of her fully-developed, ultra-antagonistic personality, and how it still has her saucer-eyes.
Those are some big thought balloons.
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