Unpacking Peanuts Podcast

Thanks Todd Webb for sharing these pages of Charles Schulz's Preliminary Drawings from McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13. We've been wondering what they looked like.

Listener Deborah Lofas of the UK tells us that the Royal Mail has just issued a set of 8 Peanuts commemorative stamps with some country specific changes like Snoopy on a British post box and Snoopy and Woodstock as Buckingham Palace guardsmen. Here's the link:
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Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

Wrap-up Season 12 - No One Shook Hands and Said Good Game. We look back on the fun and challenges of reading all 17,897 Peanuts comic strips. Then we discuss the death of Charles Schulz, the continued impact of Peanuts, and what’s up next. Plus: Rory goes to college. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

Thank you.

That's what I would have named the episode.

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

2000 - Charles Schulz… How Can We Ever Forget Him? We complete the Great Peanuts Re-read, and bid a tearful farewell to Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus & Lucy. But wait, there will be more! Find out what’s next for Unpacking Peanuts. + How could it ever get better than this?
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Liz and Michael with our favorite podcast announcer, Aziza.

Broccoli haircut - Wikipedia

Highly entertained by this Wikipedia entry on the Gen Z teenage male hairstyle of choice... although surprised to see it refer to Soft Cell's barnets as 80s precursors to the trend

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

1999 Part 4 - Rerun Would Never Pull the Ball Away. The last full year of Peanuts comes to an end, and it’s a long series of goodbyes… to characters, settings, and famous routines; including the last ever football strip. Plus: What do you think of the coloring? pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

You spread the good word of cartooning. Of course y’all are cool people! Jimmy is definitely one of my cartooning heroes as it was me discovering Amelia Rules! that gave me the confidence to follow my own path and that a humor comic can make it in a world dominated by heroes, ninjas and zombies.

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

1999 Part 3 - A Very Public Farewell. Schulz announces his retirement which gives the remaining strips an elegiac quality that’s hard to miss. We say goodbye to Andy and Olaf, and Rerun marches towards his destiny as an underground cartoonist. Plus: We should buy banjos. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

Love the drawing and the fact that you consider us heroes/inspirations/ and coolest people!

Superlistener @debperry.bsky.social sent us these photos from Peanuts: A Golden Celebration.

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

1999 Part 2 Snoopy, Woodstock, & the Times That Try Men’s Souls. We inch ever closer to the end of Peanuts, and so we savor each strip (and farewell) even more! Rerun continues to shine, & Patriot Snoopy faces the frigid Valley Forge winter, in August. + We agree to differ. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

Color Guide from Peanuts: A Golden Celebration

In our latest episode, 1999 Part 1, we talk about how the Sunday strips were colored for the newspaper. This is a photo from Peanuts: A Golden Celebration that shows the process.
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@benjaminlclark.com This might help solve the mystery.

In the Peanuts strip from January 28, 1999, Sally, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, and the pig-tailed girl are looking at something while Rerun observes a drawing of Earl from Mutts. Reverse image search reveals the mystery drawing as The Port at Touques by Claude Monet (black chalk on paper).

Thanks @benjaminlclark.com

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

1999 Part 1 - I Am Not A Puppy Dog! Snoopy will not suffer fools. The gang visits an exhibit featuring Monet and McDonnell. Even the Little Red Haired Girl’s mom shows up. Meanwhile, the guys theorize with wild abandon about the coloring of Peanuts in the late 90’s. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

1998 Part 3 - Tell Me What I'm Doing Here! That’s All I Ask! Rerun gets to the existential heart of Peanuts as he continues to shine in these late Peanuts strips. Meanwhile the guys talk about how audiences and critics relate to artists with decades long careers. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

Brief profile of Charles Schulz with sketches of Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Linus.

Charles Schulz in Playboy, March 1958.

Peanuts was always hip.

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"But I'll tell you who had the very best booth at the licensing expo this year was Peanuts 75th anniversary. They went all out. They had the most amazing, amazing booth space. And it was so fun." Harold talks about the Licensing Show Vegas

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

1998 Part 2 - Foxtrotting With The Little Red-haired Girl. Schulz comes as close as he ever will to depicting Charlie Brown’s one true love, and it goes great…for Snoopy anyway. Elsewhere, Woodstock parts a birdbath, and Rerun gets a compliment! Plus: Tango Tango, Charles! pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

1998 Part 1 - Are We Not Beagles? We Are Peanuts! Daily comics have turned full color, and so we get into comic strip coloring and wonder if the entire form has de-volved. Then ask “What IS Rerun’s real name anyway?” And hear from readers on the question “What is Peanuts?” pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

I will have to add more to this visual essay about Peanuts as I give it more thought (and maybe ink page two). I posted it before, but here are both pages together.
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Unpacking Peanuts returns June 10th

No new episode this week due to Harold's travel schedule. Back on June 10th. We'll miss you too. pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

Unpacking Peanuts The show where three cartoonists take an in-depth look at the greatest comic strip of all time-- Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

1997 Part 3: Rerun hides under the bed again. Lucy and Charlie Brown go on a date. Michael causes the gang to have an existential crisis and the very concept of the podcast is shaken to the core! Woodstock leads Olaf and Andy to the edge of the earth. Plus: Al Pacino! pod.link/unpackingpeanuts

Thanks for this. I'm having fun learning about the translation process and the translator.

Yes, this link is exactly what I was wondering about!

Ho capito. Abito qui in Italia e sto imparando la lingua. I find it interesting that the jokes must change depending on the audience.