Sally Brown On A Great Man
©UFS
Here’s another installment of Peanuts that I think relates nicely to all of the recent discussion about Charles M. Schulz.
2 comments December 9th, 2007
Archive for December 9th, 2007
MADtv On Japanese Korean Soap Operas
With the Writers Guild of America on strike, TV is full of re-runs, of course. Last night I caught a MADtv show that featured TV parodies, including a hilarious take on what they say are Japanese soap operas. However, Eric informs me the writing is in Korean, and cast member Bobby Lee is Korean-American. Anyway, six months ago I featured the Japanese romantic comedy Train Man, and I can see elements of that in this parody.
2 comments December 9th, 2007
Conceding A Point
Have you heard me yet on the Shokus Internet Radio calling into Stu’s Show? I’ll post my part of it on Wednesday, after the re-runs of last Wednesday’s program are done.
And have you heard the AARP online audio interview with Schulz biographer David Michaelis? One point he makes is about a Peanuts comic strip with “Snoopy chickening out of giving a speech at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm.” Unless Michaelis is referring to a different series than I think, that’s not quite how the story played out. In fact, in his book Michaelis includes a couple of strips from those weeks in 1970, because they introduce a “girl-beagle” that Snoopy pines after. A girl-beagle who apparently represents Charles M. Schulz’s real life object of affection, a woman named Tracey.
©UFS
Reading these comic strips in the context of the timeframe, the connection seems pretty clear, and I have to agree with Michaelis about that. However, Monte Schulz’s complaints against the Michaelis book are given great weight by his candid admission that the family knew and accepted that his father’s affair with Tracey would be revealed.
The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm sequence with the unseen girl-beagle won’t be reprinted in The Complete Peanuts for a couple more volumes, so I’ll put it here. The first cartoon is above, and you can read the rest of them by clicking the thumbnail pictures. Isn’t the closing gag in the very last panel laugh-out-loud funny?
Note: If the images look jaggy, your browser is re-sizing. Click again to see them full-size.
2 comments December 9th, 2007