Tuesday, 22 April 2014
Peanuts rule!
I love Charles Schulz's Peanuts. They were in the Sunday papers when I was growing up. you could buy books of them. There was a movie. And, somewhere - in storage I think... - is a book for my tiny book series that's just Lucy. So, when someone posted this on Facebook the other day, I had to share it. It cracked me up!!
Might be a little while til my next Bingo post - I put my hand on the place the Mary Wesley novel should have been and it wasn't there. Some gremlin has moved it... You know that feeling when you're planning to read a particular book and you can't get your hands on it? I stood in front of the bookcases last night feeling SO frustrated. My mind was all set for that book. None of the others looked appealing. I got over it - it's not like I lack choice with four six foot bookcases full of fiction, adult and child... But the one I chose was a heftier read than the Wesley novel. So, bear with me...I'll get to the next post asap!
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Schulz was a genius, wasn't he? Here was a man whose talent was to blend adult cynicism with childhood innocence. His kids are icons of a century, and a delight to everyone who reads them. There have been other iconic strips; Blondie and Dennis the Menace spring to mind, but no one touched us like Charlie and the gang.
ReplyDeleteJust a little PS for you: You can now read Episode 7 in its entirety at http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/item_id/1987590-The-Family ~ if you want, you know...
ReplyDeleteSchulz was brilliant. I'm very sad that Eighteen and most of his generation don't appear to know all the Peanuts gang. I think they're missing out on something very special.
DeleteI will go chase up Episode 7 - good on you!
One of my favourite Peanuts moments is Charlie Brown sticking out his tongue "Bleurr! I'm aware of my tongue!" Sometimes that happens to me. A great great cartoon.
ReplyDeleteI remember that one! Must have been mid-60s? My faves were always CB getting blasted off the mound, and all his clothes coming off. Great stuff!
DeleteOoh I don't know. I used to work in a school where the staff bathroom had a great collection of Peanuts books. I also remember Lucy congratulating Linus (I think) on how clean his fingernails were and he said "toothpaste". Brilliant.
DeleteThat's too bad. The 60s were a great time, or maybe it's that it was great being a kid. But my parents used to push me out the door after breakfast, and they didn't expect to see me again until the street lights came on. Now, you don't let your kid go out to get the mail unless you're standing in the door with a shotgun. In any case, Schultz was the man...
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