I once drew a parody cartoon of Calvin and Hobbes, never published, using the name of two other political thinkers. Calvin ends up being institutionalized by his distraught parents, where he meets up with Dennis the Menace. Here’s a decidedly more twisted take on Calvin’s fate.
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Arlo and Janis creator Jimmy Johnson confused me and my friend Sam when he said nothing in his blog about last week’s series, which seemed to indicate that he had cut his finger rather badly.
He’s posted a partial explanation. Click here to read. Jimmy doesn’t use permalinks, so if he suddenly posts something new, you’ll have to scroll down to find this item.
Caricature isn’t the strongest suit of political cartoonist Jeff Danziger, but I think he has a great drawing style. I appreciate the fact he seems to have been more influenced by Pat Oliphant than the late, overly-emulated Jeff MacNelly. Sometimes Danziger’s ideas and imagery are Old School, but every so often he hits the spot. Here’s a good one.
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The comment was made for my previous post about “A Charlie Brown Christmas” that there are some pink walls. Well, yes, that does indeed appear to be the case. The video clip has the entire show run in 30 seconds, but it’s backwards, with a corporate logo superimposed over the image.
It’s backwards because the Laserdisc scanning was smoother that way, and I didn’t feel like spending the money to enable the reverse playback feature in Pinnacle Studio. Even if I had paid, the logo would still be there because I didn’t want to pay to license the audio dub feature!
Tonight is the annual showing of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” on network TV. The show was quite a breakthrough when it first aired in 1965, which is something I couldn’t fully appreciate until I became an adult.
Schulz makes an unabashed plug for his Christian faith and The New Testament, and I would be disingenuous if I claimed it never had an influence on me. He also offers another message, which is IT’S OK TO BE DEPRESSED DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
Click here here to go to the gallery to see an adaptation of “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” published by Family Circle magazine in 1977. Be sure to click “full” to enlarge the images.
Vince Guaraldi’s music for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” is the subject of a feature on NPR that can be heard by clicking here.
Just what is “graphic blandishment,” anyway?
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Here’s a nice 3-minute vignette from Azumanga Daioh. The show has such a wide variety of original music, and much of it can stand on its own, like the track I put on the audio player.
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