Did you know that when you take the last panel off of a Peanuts cartoon, it becomes more depressing than your average Peanuts cartoon?
No, I mean really depressing:
And sometimes it has a haunting, Dostoevsky kind of feel:
You should start following 3eanuts for your daily dose of spiritual malaise.
(Via Bleeding Cool.)
This is great, thank you.
I know Chuck Schultz should have ended the strip long before he did and probably overrated but I love Peanuts. It was a huge part of my childhood, from the Halloween TV special to the read-along cassette tapes. I nearly shat myself when I saw the Fantagraphics books — I didn’t know about them until a couple years after they started publishing them.
I never really noticed that before, even on one of my favorite strips that has a Bob Dylan reference (30th birthday!) it ends on a depressing note:
http://expectingrain.com/dok/jcli/PEANUTS_…
Depressing is the new funny!
I like it, it’s more poignant this way.