Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 28, 2011

Here it is as originally submitted by Schulz:

http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1964/05/30/

I like it just the way it is here. Thanks anyway.

Run them off, Snoopy.

“I like it just the way it is here.” It’s all about you, eh?

Go back a few days where they were presented as Schulz intended in black and white. Many preferred it that way, many didn’t. That’s fine. You against choice? It has to be your way?

You’re welcome anyway.

Yep! The black and white takes me back to the days watching TV with a round screen and a test pattern on for almost 20% of the days programing. I, also, like the color comics myself. The movies shot in b / w many time are best left in b / w. Ted Turner screwed up ’It’s a Great Life’ with color. Also, Peanuts on May 28, 1964 got ‘0’ comments.p

Thank you, Bruce, it’s nice to see both. I like the colour but the black and white takes me back to my youth.

Yes, “It’s A Wonderful Life”. And at 70 yrs and 2 days (but who is counting?) it is ‘GREAT Life’

The birds that hung out with Snoopy were always yellow, weren’t they? Kind of the precursers to Woodstock?

I’ll see if I can put other verbiage in the link so you don’t have to see the date, how’s that? :)

I hate fanatics. Except comic strip fanatics.

Hello everyone. Here I thought it was just kids commenting on these strips. Now I find out you are old folks like me. Have always loved peanuts. Now I can only find it online. Loved Calvin and Hobbes too. My favourites. Party on!

Wow, can’t we just get along? I appreciate, by the way, knowing the B&W version is available, although it’s way too small on my screen; much smaller than originally presented in any paper in 1964. The color doesn’t usually bother me, although I really prefer the black & white during the week because Charles Schulz drew it with that in mind. But the coloring of the birds today is awful; can’t see them.

Seriously, though, this isn’t religion. It’s comics! Have fun!

i loved peanuts

Bruce, do you need a job or hobby? This has gone on all week, and frankly, I’m sick of enjoying the comic just to glance down the comments and see nothing about the comic – just a rant about color. If anything is ruining my enjoyment of Peanuts – its you. I just want to see the comic (color doesn’t bother me) and not have to deal with your soapbox every day. If you don’t like the colorized version – write an email to gocomics. Actually, I’m sure you’ve already done that. So, go look at them in BW and leave us to have our own fun.

I like ‘em both. Good memories of reading my father’s b&w collections (now there was a fanatic! ;) )

It’s really quite simple. Mr. Schulz wrote and drew the weekday strip in black and white, and never intended the dailies to be in color. Reprint books have always produced the strips in their original B&W format. I’m very happy for those readers who love the colorful appearance of the B&W strips. However, I’m quite certain the artist would not approve, if he we alive to give his take on the matter. If you are unable to appreciate the strip in it’s original format as it was drawn and intended to be seen, that’s your right and choice. I, for one, have emailed Go Comics to give them my opinion…which, I am, of course, entitled to have. Why the Schulz estate has allowed for the strips to be colored is beyond me. If you feel the need to rant against me, go ahead. I’m simply giving my personal opinion/preference, not trying to impose it on anyone else. If you’re unable to appreciate Peanuts without color, then that’s your choice. Enjoy the strip in whatever format is most pleasing to you.

When colorizing first began, Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon hailed it as a remarkable achievement. A couple of years later when others started opposing changing the classics from black and white, they decided it was the greatest travesty ever perpetrated on filmdom. I think that’s called going with the flow.

every time i accidentally scroll down and see the comments i remember why i never read the comments. you guys suck all the fun out of the funnies

Holding down the control key (or command on a Mac) and pressing the + key once or twice should make it larger. Has to do with the resolution of your screen and the resolution it was scanned into the computer at.