Let's Read Peanuts (Fat-shaming Charlie Brown since 2023) – July 1959
There are lots of great strips I just don't have room to comment on. I strongly encourage everybody to read along at the official GoComics page or by purchasing the Fantagraphics hardcover collections.
Hey lookit' that! I think this might be the first time we hear that phrase.
I didn’t get this joke until I factored in inflation:
1959 wasn't even that long ago. Yeesh!
And now I think we just saw a rough draft of the “getting your clothes knocked off with a pitch” joke.
Man, we are speed-running our way to the Golden Age Peanuts era aren't we?
Nobody tell them Sally is basically Charlie Brown with a wig on.
Relax, Charlie Brown. I’m from the future and I can assure you that everything turns out just fine.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go acquire toilet paper for the resistance.
The rare Peanuts action scene.
I kind of wish Schulz utilized action more often. It changes the texture of the strip in an interesting way.
I'm enjoying Linus's "Eat The Rich" arc.
This is the first time Peanuts was ever animated and in a way it feels very spiritually similar to the much later stuff, doesn’t it?
That’s probably because pretty much all Peanuts media was animated and directed by a guy named Bill Melendez, a former Disney animator who worked on movies like Pinocchio and Dumbo as a variety of shorter projects, including the surprisingly influential Gerald McBoing-Boing. He was basically the only person Schulz ever trusted to make animated Peanuts media and he continued to do so right up until his death in 2008. It's a genuinely impressive legacy, even if I sometimes ~kind of~ wish they'd let in some fresh blood towards the end.
I'm just saying, we probably could have done a bit better than Flashbeagle.
