The Telling of Faults
Shaenon: I don’t think I’ve shared this before, and it’s high time I did. I wrote and drew a comic for Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, a collection of Peanuts art and comics by an amazing lineup of cartoonists. My story is based on my mother. Makes a great holiday gift!
Anyway, here’s the black-and-white art. The final version features colors by the great Pancha Diaz.
Channing: What can you say about Schulz that hasn’t already been said? Dude created the longest-running uninterrupted single-storyteller narrative in pop culture history. The rest of us can only aspire. Anyway, this looks cool!
An under appreciated genius, Schultz was – and he timed his death so well, too!
One of my favorite Peanuts strips involved Charlie Brown belting Lucy a good one—even if it was an accident, it was good to see him do it.
And, really, haven’t we all wanted to see Charlie Brown belt her a good one?
Ah, “Sparky” Schultz, another of the greats of our day that I almost met.
He was ensconced in his studio when I visited the Peanuts “museum.” That counts as “almost” doesn’t it?
Lucy’s lucky to lose only her shoes.
This story is so incredibly good—I thought so ten years ago and I still think so today. I was just now agreeing with a friend that non-Schulz Peanuts comics could be as valuable and clever as the originals, and yours loomed ahead of Sasseville and all the rest.
“She was so cruel… but so accurate!”
And then Charlie Brown—I just—I saw what you did there. (Did Lucy know he took her football?)
Thank you so much. My mom really did this when she was a kid.