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krpalmerWhile I shifted to online ordering of manga in time to not run out of it back when browsing in stores was unhealthy, during that period keeping up with the big hardcovers reprinting Peanuts Sunday pages in colour somehow slipped my mind. When I did think of trying to catch up, the volume going through the second half of the 1980s didn’t appear to be available any more. I told myself I at least had those five years of Sunday pages, and the decade that followed them, in black and white, even if a few had looked to lack something that way.
“Does ‘wild strawberry’ say anything at all?”
Then, some time later again, I was poking through the “e-comics” available through the Hoopla lending service offered by my library, and saw the Peanuts Every Sunday collections there. For a little while, the peculiar thought the collections would take some time to download for reading kept me from signing one out. When my resolve gathered at last, I was hit with program errors and wound up sorting out I’d let my library card expire without realising it. With that resolved, though, I could pick up where I’d left off.
“And I’m not sure if ‘fuchsia’ makes an effort to communicate..”
I was conscious even so of getting well into the years not much attention accrues to. One of the most obvious points to make amounts to the “Peanuts featuring ‘Good ol’ Charlie Brown’” title block that had been around for a little over twenty years going away, replaced by lettering that’s not “hand-drawn.” (A bit of similar lettering did show up on a sign appearing in several panels of one page.) The characters get squatter and the linework does get a bit shakier. One thing I did manage to remember, though, was a self-deprecating comment from Charles Schulz about cartoonists needing to remember their job involves drawing funny pictures, and with that in mind my mood did begin to improve.
“Which really speaks louder, ‘tangerine’ or ‘dandelion’?”
In a way, not having gone over this period of the strip as much as others kept things a bit surprising for me for all that I knew I’d seen these pages the first time around. One early page involving a “ganglion” and the folk remedy for it had stuck in my mind. For that matter, I got to looking for a later page remembering how I’d taken several comics from one weekend, whited out their speech bubbles, and tried adding my own dialogue (although in retrospect I can’t call what I came up with an improvement). The yearly “football gag” pages showed up after what I recall was a hiatus of a few years, but now moving from elaborate efforts by Lucy to once convince Charlie Brown things will be different this year to an odd sort of ritual.
“Color the sky blue and the grass green!”
While I did notice the endpapers of the hardcover volumes hadn’t been included in this e-comic version, it at least got me moving through the Peanuts Sunday pages once more. I suppose I don’t have to wait a year in between instalments any more, but the sense of approaching “the end” could be its own unfortunate brake.
“Does ‘wild strawberry’ say anything at all?”
Then, some time later again, I was poking through the “e-comics” available through the Hoopla lending service offered by my library, and saw the Peanuts Every Sunday collections there. For a little while, the peculiar thought the collections would take some time to download for reading kept me from signing one out. When my resolve gathered at last, I was hit with program errors and wound up sorting out I’d let my library card expire without realising it. With that resolved, though, I could pick up where I’d left off.
“And I’m not sure if ‘fuchsia’ makes an effort to communicate..”
I was conscious even so of getting well into the years not much attention accrues to. One of the most obvious points to make amounts to the “Peanuts featuring ‘Good ol’ Charlie Brown’” title block that had been around for a little over twenty years going away, replaced by lettering that’s not “hand-drawn.” (A bit of similar lettering did show up on a sign appearing in several panels of one page.) The characters get squatter and the linework does get a bit shakier. One thing I did manage to remember, though, was a self-deprecating comment from Charles Schulz about cartoonists needing to remember their job involves drawing funny pictures, and with that in mind my mood did begin to improve.
“Which really speaks louder, ‘tangerine’ or ‘dandelion’?”
In a way, not having gone over this period of the strip as much as others kept things a bit surprising for me for all that I knew I’d seen these pages the first time around. One early page involving a “ganglion” and the folk remedy for it had stuck in my mind. For that matter, I got to looking for a later page remembering how I’d taken several comics from one weekend, whited out their speech bubbles, and tried adding my own dialogue (although in retrospect I can’t call what I came up with an improvement). The yearly “football gag” pages showed up after what I recall was a hiatus of a few years, but now moving from elaborate efforts by Lucy to once convince Charlie Brown things will be different this year to an odd sort of ritual.
“Color the sky blue and the grass green!”
While I did notice the endpapers of the hardcover volumes hadn’t been included in this e-comic version, it at least got me moving through the Peanuts Sunday pages once more. I suppose I don’t have to wait a year in between instalments any more, but the sense of approaching “the end” could be its own unfortunate brake.