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Thanks so much. That’s what it was all about. Glad you enjoyed it.

if that’s the kind of thinking that comes with an engineering degree, I’m glad I went to art school!

You hate Peanuts.. yet you saw the 2015 movie? Charlie Brown losing IS the point.

Thank you so much. I so appreciate your comments.You’ve really illuminated what I was trying to do and hoping to communicate. You’ve made my day!

Actually, this is the mid-50s style…🤓

Wow, thanks! That means so much to me. I have always loved the Fawcett paperbacks, which were my introduction to Peanuts as a kid-and in a lot of ways, this little film was inspired by them, as well as the Kaye Ballard LP.

@@geoffgrogansblockhead I'll bet you have a LOT of viewers who bought those books from Fawcett World Library. It'd be interesting to know how many who saw this actually did.

The voice artists come from a 1962 LP, “Good Grief!Charlie Brown! Peanuts!” Featuring comedians Kaye Ballard and Arthur Siegel, and was the inspiration for this film. They performed this as a comedy routine in comedy clubs, one of which Schulz attended. He liked it enough to allow them to make the record. This was several years before “A Charlie Brown Christmas “ and the decision to use child actors for the voices.

Thanks!

Thank you!

Thanks. This is just an early test for my full-length video, “Good Grief! By Schulz”. Check that one out on my channel.

Thanks for the kind words. I’m so glad you enjoyed it. The “concrete music” is indeed from the “Good Grief!Peanuts” album. I’ve come to think of it as part of the LP’s charm-and evocative of the kind of suburban space the strip takes place in. But I do understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea!

This is almost exactly what I was going to say in my comment, right down to the annoying bike horn. I was going to add I didn't like Charlie Brown's voice. But everything else I loved. I remember all those strips. It really took me back to my childhood.

Nah don’t diss the 2015 Peanuts movie like that

A number of characters were cartoonists at one point or another. In the early strips, Charlie Brown drew a few comics, and later ReRun was a cartoonist-and in In the strips from this period Lucy was. I don’t recall Linus drawing cartoons, but he certainly might have.

@@geoffgrogansblockhead I just remember the same joke in the early comic strips. I thought it was Linus rather than Lucy who drew the comics. Also Snoopy kept writing novels.

Thank you!

Thank you for writing, Shirley. Your comments moved me. I’m so glad my little film -and more rightly, Charles Schulz, could offer you some solace when you’re feeling alone. But that’s the magic of “Peanuts”; in Charlie Brown we find a shared humanity, a vulnerability and isolation-and the determination to go on, the faith to believe that we’re going to kick the football one day-and miraculously, a sense of humor about it all. I hope you find what you’re looking for and see love and appreciation in the eyes of your friends and family and those you come in contact with every day. Peace.

thank you! Yes, I knew the voices would be "off-model", but I just love Kaye Ballard's "Lucy" and the original record album from 1962. I'm not sure, but I guess that would make hers the first vocalization of Lucy-3 years before the Christmas special( which will always be my favorite and I love the voices on that special.)!

Thank you! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

I think you mean Peter Robbins.

Thank you! That means so much to me.

Thank You! So glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks, Sue!

Thank you, Christopher! I’m so glad you enjoyed it!

I’m so glad! Thank you!

Thank you, John! I’m glad you enjoyed it.

@@geoffgrogansblockhead I'm a regular Blockhead listener , and I've been looking forward to seeing this animation. Well worth the wait!

Sorry you were disappointed, Arlen. I’m not going to bother to explain my choices, but you’ve misunderstood my intentions entirely. Getting a job w/The Schulz studio is the farthest thing from my mind.

@@geoffgrogansblockhead literal much? I was saying that in a hypothetic sense, not literally! "Good grief," indeed! How 'bout actually responding to the very valid points I raised?

Arlen, I’m not one who likes to engage in these pointless online arguments that do little in the way of swaying opinion. It takes up too much time and I’d rather accept your criticisms and move on. I respect your view, although I disagree. That being said, I doubt you’ll let me get away with that-so here goes: my fundamental intention was to bring this little film as close to the original strip as I could, for my feeling is that as time has gone on, animated adaptations of “Peanuts” have gotten farther away from what I felt were the feelings at the heart of the strip; the sense of alienation, the futility, the sparseness( some might describe as bleak)of the world the characters exist in. My “interpretation” is in choices that may not be so obvious; the color( or rather, lack thereof), the timing, the sound-the mood of Fred Karlin’s spare concrete music, the emphasis on line and the transitions between scenes. A close up on Charlie Brown’s face that dematerializes and transforms. Schulz’s world devoid of all but the wind at the end of the film, the distance in the dog’s bark and the doorbell ring. In the original album and comics from which these vignettes come, there is little of the sentiment we find in latter animated films. None of these things would show up in traditional Peanuts animation(and I say this as one who adores several of the Melendez films). Nor has anyone( to my knowledge) chosen to use the Kaye Ballard/Arthur Siegel voices in previous adaptations; it goes against the template. A meditation on “Grief”-well, the title is an adaptation of The title of The Ballard/Siegel album “Good Grief, Charlie Brown!Peanuts”-but throughout the film we see Charlie Brown’s despair at Lucy’s characterizations, his “Blah” character, the despair in his expression as she speaks. And the end of the film, wherein the empty streets and rooms and their sounds and voices are at such a distance as to be memory, is my attempt at an elegy to a time gone by; the time of comicstrips in the newspapers, of Charles Schulz, of Peanuts, of my own childhood. Finally, there is the question Lucy poses in the coda; “Would he live his life over again”. Charlie Brown’s response speaks volumes, about Schulz, about Peanuts, about the humor he found in despair. These are Schulz’s words, and Schulz’s images-And by getting close to them I meant to do him honor-but the choices, arrangement, pacing, movement and sounds are mine( and Ballard’s/Siegel’s and Karlin’s)-my interpretation. It may not hit you over the head with its distinction from the source( it’s not meant to)-but the overall mood and feeling are distinct from those other adaptations, like it or not. And Like it or not, that is up to you. I thank you for respecting the film enough to engage it as a professional-but I don’t expect to change your mind-and that’s fine. Peace.

@@geoffgrogansblockhead jeez, Geoff, why so defensive, and assume I want you to "change my mind"? All i'm EVER looking for is DISCUSSION. But i forgot that most people online can't deal with "disagreement" respectively, or "arguing" different opinions, and therefore most threads are mutual-agreement threads, where everyone agrees with one another. Geoff, i totally RESPECT your GREAT response, which is the BEST I could have hoped for! (And i purposely posted my review in as many places as possible to indirectly get MORE people to see your labor of love!)

Thanks, bro!

Thanks so much, Frank!

@@geoffgrogansblockhead anytime man! You should do more of these ❤️

I love Lucy!

Thanks so much for being here!

Thanks ✌️

Hey Puey- so glad you like the show. I like having the show on TH-cam,, but it’s weird how sometimes the posts go up and sometimes they don’t. Still, in other ways it’s so convenient, and I’m glad it works for you!. Didn’t get a chance to listen to the NCS fest; sounds like they’ve got a great lineup!

Thanks for listening, Dave. Two fabulous cartoonists!

Hi Geoffrey. I'm sorry you've been waiting. I posted in the comments on the last strip a link to my announcement: jetpackjr.blogspot.com/2016/09/tomorrows-new-day_5.html I am currently working on Plastic Babyheads project, a small clip of you can see here: vimeo.com/185007111 In some way, I hope that lessens your disappointment. & thanks for reading!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!