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Just what the world needed; an 'Onion' for baseball. Hooray!
I hear that Toronto signed Joe Schlabotnik to a minor-league deal with an NRI.
That's the first funny thing ever associated with the Peanuts gang. Too bad Shultz is no longer around to see this happen.
That's the first funny thing ever associated with the Peanuts gang.
Heh. It's actually my favorite cartoon of all time. Not the peak value of Calvin and Hobbes or Far Side, but massively ahead in terms of career value.
Heh. It's actually my favorite cartoon of all time. Not the peak value of Calvin and Hobbes or Far Side, but massively ahead in terms of career value.
Peanuts was the Cal Ripken of cartoons. Always in the lineup but rarely spectacular. It was also vastly overrated. Of course that will happen when you play shortstop in a lineup that includes the likes of Family Circus, Ziggy, and Cathy. You look good by comparison. While I was always a fan of the Far Side I went back a month ago and reread some Far Side books only to realize that they no longer made me laugh. The best cartoon I ever read was published in the Gateway, the student newspaper at the University of Alberta. If you aren't offended easily, I encourage you all to take a look at something that puts every mass circulation cartoon to shame.
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I suggest you check out the archives and start at 90/91.
Space Moose
I suggest you check out the archives and start at 90/91.
Cristian, I know asking if that was serious isn't the right way to say it, but !?
That was awful. Oh well, to each his own.
That was awful. Oh well, to each his own.
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I grew up in the 1980's thinking that Peanuts was pretty unfunny. About ten years ago I found a collection of Peanuts strips from the late 1950's and early 1960's. They're actually incredibly funny, and a lot darker then the stuff I saw as a kid.
There was a one panel Far Side style comic that ran in the University of Western Ontario Gazette for a few years in the early 1990's. I can't recall what it was called but it was absolutely hilarious. The guy who drew it was obsessed with the Stone Roses who showed up atleast twice a month in the comic. If anyone can remember what it was called, please let me know.
Cheers,
Mike
I grew up in the 1980's thinking that Peanuts was pretty unfunny. About ten years ago I found a collection of Peanuts strips from the late 1950's and early 1960's. They're actually incredibly funny, and a lot darker then the stuff I saw as a kid.
There was a one panel Far Side style comic that ran in the University of Western Ontario Gazette for a few years in the early 1990's. I can't recall what it was called but it was absolutely hilarious. The guy who drew it was obsessed with the Stone Roses who showed up atleast twice a month in the comic. If anyone can remember what it was called, please let me know.
Cheers,
Mike
Oddly enough, another Peanuts-themed article from an Onion-style sports website..
http://www.sportspickle.com/features/2003-1105-charlie.html
http://www.sportspickle.com/features/2003-1105-charlie.html
I grew up in the 1980's thinking that Peanuts was pretty unfunny. About ten years ago I found a collection of Peanuts strips from the late 1950's and early 1960's. They're actually incredibly funny, and a lot darker then the stuff I saw as a kid.
Mike makes a good point here. To really see Peanuts at its best, go back and read the stuff from the 1950s and 1960s - especially the 1960s. Schultz had a magical ability to capture what being a kid in an adult's world is like... I've never forgotten it, and I think I've inculcated it to the point that what I think of as the Peanuts ethos - total mastery inside one's self-invented world, at the mercy of the Fates outside - has become a big part of who I am. That tension between the person we see ourselves as, and the person the rest of the world sees... Schultz just nails it, it can be incredibly funny.
What Peanuts was most like was Calvin and Hobbes, but while Peanuts takes place in a community of kids, Calvin and Hobbes (which I also love) is just Calvin, because Calvin is alone in the universe.
Mike makes a good point here. To really see Peanuts at its best, go back and read the stuff from the 1950s and 1960s - especially the 1960s. Schultz had a magical ability to capture what being a kid in an adult's world is like... I've never forgotten it, and I think I've inculcated it to the point that what I think of as the Peanuts ethos - total mastery inside one's self-invented world, at the mercy of the Fates outside - has become a big part of who I am. That tension between the person we see ourselves as, and the person the rest of the world sees... Schultz just nails it, it can be incredibly funny.
What Peanuts was most like was Calvin and Hobbes, but while Peanuts takes place in a community of kids, Calvin and Hobbes (which I also love) is just Calvin, because Calvin is alone in the universe.
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Craig, thanx for posting this one. I really enjoy Peanuts. After the holy trinity of Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, and THe Far SIde, it was my favorite comic strip.
Craig, thanx for posting this one. I really enjoy Peanuts. After the holy trinity of Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County, and THe Far SIde, it was my favorite comic strip.
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That was great.. loved the article!
That was great.. loved the article!