Comments on: Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski

Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski

xmutex — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:30:55 -0800

Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski. via

By: drezdn

drezdn — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:32:17 -0800

Nice. I | progressiveboink.

By: Dr-Baa

Dr-Baa — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:34:51 -0800

"sopwith camel" is awesome. Great execution.

By: mazola

mazola — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:35:54 -0800

Good grief!

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:41:09 -0800

I really adore the remade strips. The essays, not so much. Still, thank you.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:41:47 -0800

Oh hell yes. Incredible stuff all around.

By: fleetmouse

fleetmouse — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:51:25 -0800

This poem is great.

By: zebra3

zebra3 — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:00:56 -0800

These are really brilliant. I particularly love the last one.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:01:23 -0800

It seems more like a Peanuts version of Charles Bukowski, rather than the other way around. Thinking it could have been so much darker. Mischievously playful in any case. Seconding fleetmouse's liking of the childhood angst poem. Would be fun to have a Bukowski translation to add to Swedish Chef, Jive, Valley Girl and Pig Latin. It might be something like reverse Crocashit.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:06:30 -0800

The ironic thing to me is that Peanuts always seemed darker than Bukowski, in my mind. I mean, Bukowski has this whole "drugs and sex and women and pain, I'm revelling in it, look at me" thing he does. But Peanuts was kind of about the rejection of childhood, which is a hell of a lot heavier.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:18:39 -0800

that's really well done. guy's got bukowski down cold. it must take dedication to write that much material like that, though. If it had been me, I'd probably have written the first story and said, "there you go. bukowski does peanuts. done."

By: solipsophistocracy

solipsophistocracy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:08 -0800

But Peanuts was kind of about the rejection of childhood, which is a hell of a lot heavier. Check out Ham on Rye if you're interested in Bukowski's take on the rejection of childhood .

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:30:59 -0800

Nice.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:34:26 -0800

Sublime.

By: TedW

TedW — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:42:27 -0800

This is good; interestingly, it was posted the same day I am supposed to get Born into This from Netflix.

By: jonson

jonson — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:43:44 -0800

Quality.

By: davejay

davejay — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:04:40 -0800

"There was this woman with this 15 year old daughter..." is funny not only in the sense that "it's peanuts with swearing, hee!" but that it's a terrific joke as well. FPP is worth it just for that one, as far as I'm concerned.

By: waldo

waldo — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:06:28 -0800

Peanuts, by Art Spiegelman. (Disclaimer: VQR is my employer. But that doesn't make Spiegelman any less awesome.)

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:17:24 -0800

Swell.

By: Songdog

Songdog — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:18:38 -0800

"sopwith camel" is my favorite, but it's excellent all over. Thanks for this!

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:27:54 -0800

Really great.

By: John of Michigan

John of Michigan — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:52:40 -0800

What is it about Peanuts that makes it just ripe for parody?

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:19:36 -0800

For Meta Or Worse

By: scratch

scratch — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:21:52 -0800

I loved "Lucy" (ha!), the first one, except it lacked verisimilitude since nobody got blind drunk or engaged in dirty joyless animal sex. Also, when I tried to get to the next page, my computer bumped me out and into an ad for "adult material detection software." So I'll probably get fired, but that's cool. Also reminds me of those Family Circus parodies from a while back: "Daddy said I shoulda been a `bortion and then he passed out!"

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:48:31 -0800

Nifty

By: box

box — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:59:05 -0800

Wu-Peanuts

By: Belle O'Cosity

Belle O'Cosity — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:08:27 -0800

That was awsome. Hit the tone perfectly. I'm not going to be able to read Bukowski with out it being illustrated this way in my mind.

By: bunglin jones

bunglin jones — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:47:04 -0800

That was just PERFECT. I listened to Bukowski reading on the way to work this morning and could feel myself edging into the "off-again" phase of my on-off relationship with his writing. But this is brilliant parody - so good it's renewed my interest in the material it apes.

By: pepcorn

pepcorn — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:39:19 -0800

I agree. Perfect. Thanks xmutex!

By: msconduct

msconduct — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:59:14 -0800

now THAT is awesome.