LOL, "Kids Like Comics! Maybe That's Good???"

Did you know "dude" appears twice in the comic strip Peanuts? I'm writing a museum exhibition label to explain Peanuts/ Schulz and 1990s slang, and it's hilarious and terrible ....

Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published December 2, 1990

RARE RBR N-2-1 (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library), ca. 1700–1799, p. 1. (ca. 1700-99), from RARE RBR N-2-1 (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library). Source: @harvard.edu Available to buy as a print. https://pdimagearchive.org/images/549c8edb-0bbf-49d5-8f07-7242f46baf8b #herbals #mandrakes #folklore

At the dentist, I whipped out my 2022 iPhone SE, and a lady said, "I miss those old iPhones!" I said, "Me too," with a nod. How late were people using candlestick phones regularly? Blondie and Dagwood still had one in 1951, apparently.

Has newspapers.com been super glitchy for anyone else the past several days?

Neighborhood holiday parade just got the bar raised

Exciting news! Thanks to the repeated generosity of @iamdavidbrothers.com, we are adding TWO more mini grants to this year's round! Please make sure to submit your applications by the end of the month. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

They keep dinner classy at Chez Brown! Place cards! 😂

Reminder: Newspaper comics are a commercial endeavor.

Gordo by Gus Arriola, July 18 1976:

Would absolutely go here if I was visiting Chicago this month

Los Angeles pals:

It's a Podcast, Charlie Brown 148: More Snoopy in Your Stocking is UP! Grab a root beer mug and doughnut and sit by the fire. We discuss two original Peanuts stories - "Charlie Brown's Christmas Stocking" and "The Christmas Story" - published in the 1960s. charliebrownpodcast.libsyn.com

As we all pivot to video calls to prove we're real and not a scammy AI, it's a chance for the newspaper industry to sell a lot more print newspapers so that we can hold them up like hostages in an action movie.

Huh. I wonder if there's a version of this in Percy Crosby's Skippy or something else from Schulz's youth. I wonder if Garfield did this as a deliberate tribute or if it was subconscious or just happenstance. It's not a usual setting for Garfield and Jon. Peanuts by Schulz, 8/14/1960

This is what the internet is for.

I too would love a giant payday for work I enjoy, FYI

WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership. details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...

Hot reminder that applications for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant are OPEN! If you're a comics critic, please apply! forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...

Casablanca: Tokyo Drift

I've heard enough rumors from different sources to be thinking about this too.

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This cracked me up yesterday @harrybliss.bsky.social

Good to know the World Famous Attorney eventually became a judge.

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

This is what the internet is for.

MarioKart Rube Goldberg

The reason all the recent Muppet fall flat is b/c there's no edge to them. The Muppet Show, and classic films work because there's just a bit of edge and grit in there. The recent stuff has been disappointingly slick, tidy, and shiny. Could Rian Johnson bring some of fun back? Maybe ...

Another earthquake! A shaker instead of a roller this time.

Earthquake in Rincon Valley, Santa Rosa,California!

A brand new Sunday funny! Dog’s best friend.

There is something genuinely comforting in the fact that 75 years after a shy, depressive Midwesterner started drawing simple comic strips that within a commercial format expressed his distinct experience of the world, a museum dedicated to that work draws a large, joyful international crowd.

My friend @benjaminlclark.com in his gift-giving guide: “Glenn was perfectly positioned not only to make sense of [the creation and prodcution of newspaper comics] but also to gather these disparate elements to tell the story.” benjaminlclark.com/from-panels-...

A student at the University of Leuven was bored in 1613 and decided to draw a weird figure. Photo shared by Zanna van Loon (Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp)

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on November 28, 1997.

SONY — Spider-Verse just got a little bigger

Did someone say PIE?? @carnivalofglee.bsky.social 📷Comic by Thad Hackett in Hygeia 9/1934: Vol 12 Iss 9, pg. 824.

Lol

Pie.

Then as now ...

It's time for the 2026 Comics Criticism Mini Grant! My family and I are awarding four $250 grants to active comics critics. The application is simple, just your name, email, and two recent clips. Deadline for submissions is January 1st. forms.gle/Cy8FtCcqVSWa...

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Hope you all get to enjoy a nice dinner of popcorn, jelly beans, pretzels, and toast.

For Charles Schulz’s birthday, Twiggy by Bert Stern Vogue, November 1967

I love the detail of Snoopy's film camera marked LMFP/ Burlingame, which is of course for Lee Mendelson Film Productions which was in Burlingame, California. Lee was undoubtedly the one to secure "Charlie Brown Day" at Candlestick.

Amazing how relevant Charles Schulz is in today's world.

This is one of Charles Schulz’s greatest strips, from April 17, 1960. He has plenty of room to tell his story, & creates a perfectly modulated narrative, with a wonderful coda.