Tag Archive | "Peanuts"

You’re a creep, Charlie Brown..

Thursday, January 26, 2012

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Clips from the old Peanuts animated cartoon recut and edited to go along with the eerily beautiful Vega Choir’s cover of Radiohead’s brilliant song, Creep. Somehow both funny and quite sad at the same time and it fits poor ‘ole Charlie Brown very well… (Linkage from Laughing Squid via that man Matt Staggs):

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Look left, look right, cross the road safely with Peanuts

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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This zebra crossing using a perspective slanted set of Charles M Schulz’s immortal Peanuts characters made me smile (via Wim):

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Happy New Year!

Saturday, December 31, 2011

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From everyone here at The FPI, have a very Happy New Year. See you in 2012.

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Are you going to accept new Peanuts?

Saturday, March 26, 2011

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Okay, you may love the idea, you may hate the idea…. New Peanuts movie – Happiness Is A Warm Blanket, released March/April: Now, I’m not entirely convinced by this. It has charm, but there’s a little something lacking, it’s just not quite there. However, thanks to Wim, I got to see these animation tests that the [...]

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Banksy does Peanuts

Saturday, February 19, 2011

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Famed but mysterious street artist Banksy covers good ‘ole Charlie Brown (I notice the ciggie, maybe secret smoking is why Charlie has stayed so short over the years). Tip of the hat to  the Fantagraphics Flog for the link.

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Linus knows what Christmas is all about….

Saturday, December 25, 2010

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I’m not the religious type at all, but even I can go with the Peace and Goodwill toward Men. Especially when it involves Chuck and his very Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. Merry Christmas everyone.

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Boys and girls of every age.. Wouldn’t you like to see something strange?

Sunday, October 31, 2010

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It’s that time again, where all over this Great Britain of ours, boys and girls who’ve grown up on the idea of US culture wander around housing estates with badly made costumes wondering why very few of those old people are too keen on the concept of trick or treating. But enough cynicism, Happy Hallowe’en [...]

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Sometimes merchandise is wonderful, sometimes you want to kill the marketing man who dreamt it up….

Sunday, October 17, 2010

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A couple of weeks ago we put up this: And this week I catch sight of this: The former is quite wonderful, the latter an absolute abomination. The concept of a Peanuts Moleskine is lovely and somehow fitting. The idea of a Peanuts Converse is just stupid. Or is that just me?

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Snoopy – Covered

Saturday, October 16, 2010

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We’ve featured the Covered blog a few times here on the website – the simple idea being to reinterpret comic covers. And like so many simple ideas, there’s an awful lot of mileage in it. I haven’t looked at the blog for a while, but Wim blogged about this cover by Valerie Fletcher that reworks The Complete [...]

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Happy Birthday Peanuts….

Saturday, October 2, 2010

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60 years ago today (2nd Oct 1950) saw the very first Peanuts newspaper strip published. Sadly, Charles Schulz is no longer with us, but his creation lives on, immortality through print and responsible for entertaining generation after generation of readers. Happy anniversary Peanuts. You could always celebrate with one of the gorgeous Fantagraphics Complete Peanuts [...]

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Good Grief – Hellbrown

Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Bruce McCorkindale‘s Peanuts/Hellboy mashup piece. (Via Fanta Blog)

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Why do the Japanese get all the nice things…. (Updated 20th Sept – available in the US & UK, but be quick!)

Saturday, September 18, 2010

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Wow. That’s something to covet right there. Celebrating 60 years of Peanuts, Moleskine notebooks are releasing these lovely looking Peanuts special editions. But get to the bottom of the piece on the Moleskine website and see these crushing words: “Available at www.moleskine.co.jp or Amazon Japan.” Not fair. (Via Fantagraphics Blog) UPDATE 20th Sept – the Amazon US [...]

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‘Real’ Charlie Brown

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

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Tim O’Brien creates this image of good ‘ole Charlie Brown as he might look if he was real; it’s quite disturbing and, I think, a little sad, as if poor Charlie is looking at the viewer and knowing they probably see him as some sort of freak curiosity (which is, regrettably, what many real0life people [...]

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