Linus will never see the Great Pumpkin rise on Halloween. Pigpen cleans up nicely, but it will be only a panel or two before he is once again filthy. One of my favorite strips, from , depicts Charlie Brown sitting alone on a curb. In the first panel, a few raindrops are falling. What do kids take away from all this bleakness? Coyote, Elmer Fudd, even that shill the Trix Rabbit.
What I took away from Schulz is that life is hard. People are difficult at best, unfathomable at worst. Justice is a foreign tongue. Happiness can vaporize in the thin gap between a third and fourth panel, and the best response to all that is to laugh and keep moving, always ready to duck. I still hold to that philosophy, more or less.
Revisiting Schulz from a tender parental perspective can be eye-opening, just as rereading the Brothers Grimm can be—all that gore we shrugged at as kids! Charlie Brown is sitting on a schoolyard bench and, as usual, eating his bag lunch alone.
Charlie Brown turns away, his mouth now a quavering upside-down arc, his eyes wide, wobbly, and slightly askew. He looks as if he is trying desperately not to cry. I find it almost exhilarating the way the strip transcends anything readers would normally expect from the funny pages. Just as pitiless is the climax of an August baseball story, running over several days, in which Charlie Brown is pitching for his perennially lousy team in a championship game.
The presumed miracle by which they arrived at a championship game is left unexplained. That is why we all feel such a close connection to those Peanuts characters. Like the flying and morphing mouth of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland , Snoopy can become all the things he wants to be in life, be it Surgeon Snoopy, Author Snoopy, or, of course, the Flying Ace.
Well, he can as long as he has his pal Woodstock and his doghouse. Cover art to a digital collection of Doraemon comics. The more I think about it, I guess the characters in Doraemon really are spoiled amattareta. Whenever Nobita-kun gets into trouble he can always ask Doraemon, who is always there to save him with unconditional love. It is the source of a very Eastern deferment moratoriamu of duty and responsibility.
On the other hand, in Peanuts , Charlie Brown never relies on Snoopy for anything. Somehow, Snoopy could always say to Charlie Brown that he actually has always been quite happy, even before Charlie decided to dedicate his life to the happiness of his dog. There is no need to mention their personal responsibility. It is funny that Doraemon at this point [in ] has become such a classic manga character for people all over Asia, but the series never really has caught on in Western countries.
I wonder why that is. In many of these countries, they do not even broadcast the anime version of Doraemon. There are a probably many reasons why it never became a television staple there like it did in Asia.
For example, and I am guessing here, but perhaps the people who own the rights to the property gave up on doing it because they felt Western children had a different sense of values from that of their Asian peers, like I mentioned earlier. We do not really know if American and European children ever would like Doraemon , but that is a whole other ball of wax.
The real problem must have more to do with the values of adults, not those of their children. In at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D. Part of the guidebook copy reads:. But the truth is that everywhere there are Charlie Browns, Linuses, and Lucys. User reviews 6 Review. Top review. Ruined by Wokeism. They went out of their way to push an agenda.
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