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The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’
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- jdkee 7y agoChris Ware is a fantastic author of comics. His "Building Stories" is truly a masterpiece of the form and I highly recommend it to all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Stories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Building_Stories
- thrownblown 7y agoThat looks great, reminds me of Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, which was used as textbook in my intro to philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics
- GnarfGnarf 7y agoSchulz should have quit in the 70's. He dragged it on for far too long.
- phkahler 7y agoHe would have died sooner. I say that only partly in jest. When he was going to retire, he wrote the last strip ahead of publication and people were wondering what it would be. It was basically a thank you to the fans. He died the day it ran in the papers. Edit: he died the day before.
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- Lio 7y agoI used to think something similar of many of my favourite musicians who were making their best work in the 1970s. The thing is that sometimes people crank out something amazing later in their career that no one saw coming. So I say artists should do what they like whilst they still love doing it; leave the rest of the world to the job filtering the results into a "canon" of best work.
- jacobkg 7y agoI grew up reading newspaper comics during the “Calvin and Hobbes” era. I read Peanuts but I never understood its appeal as seemed extremely dull. Later I read a collection of Peanuts from around 1955 and it was incredible. Kinda like early Simpsons
- soperj 7y agoI grew up in the same era, thinking the same thing. I'll have to go check that out.
- jacobkg 7y agoEven more surprising is to go back and read early Garfield.
- RobertRoberts 7y agoMaybe when a cartoon hits syndication that the quality dips? I read somewhere that is when Bill Waters (of Calvin & Hobbs) quit creating, when syndication was his only viable option moving forward. (I think he was burning out) I loved Garfield as a kid, but as an adult it was really dull. I tried to even enjoy the old stuff... But this makes Garfield awesome again: (you may need some Garfield experience before appreciating this) https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
- tempguy9999 7y agoI guess people just get tired of having to be machines of continual creation. It must be terribly wearing. I'm not surprised it becomes just crank-turning after a while. Unrelated but I'd like to plug this which is brilliant, though it seems the author burned out a while ago. One of the best comics I've come across https://abstrusegoose.com/ https://abstrusegoose.com/ Hit Random a few times and you'll start getting some good ones. He seems to be a high level physicist so there are some impenetrable bits of maths etc. which you can safely skip.
- mturmon 7y agoWhat a beautiful short take on how we build our own work, unknowingly at the time, by looking at our predecessors' work.