Winter Is Coming, Charlie Snow

You know nothing, Charlie Snow. (Raid71)

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It's The Jack Rabbit Slim's, Charlie Brown

It was a teenage wedding and the old folks wished them well
You could see that Pierre did truly love the Madamoiselle
And now the young Monsieur and Madame have rung the chapel bell
"C'est la vie" say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell.

So is it Lucy as Mia Wallace and Charlie Brown as Vincent Vega? Provocative, if so. I'm going to imagine it is. (From illustrator Ed Harrington)

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It's Diner Time With Charles The Human And Jake The Beagle

Yup, perfect. (Charlie Finn by BazNet)

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Post-Apocalyptic Peanuts

Things have not gone well for the Peanuts gang. At least they had Snoopy's fallout shelter. (Cynthia “Thea” Rodgers for The Line it is Drawn)

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Pop Culture Übermensch

The brawny men (and woman) of Mike Mitchell. Bert is particularly disturbing.

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Droogy Brown

After one too many times of Lucy pulling out the football from him, Charlie Brown snapped and went ultra-violent, but he was still a blockhead. (Mike Capp)

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You’re A Good Man, Charlie Xavier!

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Xavier! by Jake Wyatt (via Comics Alliance)

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The Dude Is In

"I hate the fuckin' Beagles, man."

Dave MacDowell's Charles Lebowski brings The Dude to Peanuts with his latest for the Gag Me With A Toon 4 show at the WWA Gallery.

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Curb Your Famous Pets

Please pick up after your dogs, cartoon or otherwise. (From designer David Soames now on sale at Threadless)

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Please pick up after your pets, cartoon or otherwise. (From designer David Soames)

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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The Reckoning

The Great Pumpkin always weirded me out too. (Medium Large)

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It's A Peanut, Charlie Brown

What would the Peanuts Gang look like in real life? Wonder no more, thanks to Phil Jones. I ran this awhile back but it got enough votes to be printed, so now you can wear your legume-based pop culture reference, if that's the sort of think you're likely to do.

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"Good Ol" Gregor Brown

Oh Charlie Brown, and here you thought your life couldn't get any more despondent. Chuck as Gregor Samsa, from Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, as seen by illustrator Robert Sikoryak in his collection Masterpiece Comics. The National Post had a good interview with him recently.

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What the Peanuts Gang would look like in real life. A Threadless concept by Phil Jones, so you still have a chance to vote for it and get it made. I love how all the characters are so easily recognizable, even as legumes, and the fact that Woodstock is shelled.  (Link via The Daily What)

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You're A Bad Man, Chris Brown

Good ol' Chris Brown, he just can't help himself, right? Who knew MAD magazine had gotten so edgy? Or that they were online. Well, not really, but I hope to see more of this.

It's funny, Peanuts hasn't had a new strip in nine years, but its cultural cache is as current as ever. Witness Charlie Brown as drawn by Frank Miller, as The Comedian from Watchmen and as Spider-Man.

Schulz City: That Yellow Shirted Such-and-Such

If Frank Miller drew Peanuts, happiness would be a cold, lifeless puppy. Some fine Sin City styling by ninjaink — be sure to check out the full two panels.

(Link via Super Punch, who also has some nifty links to Sin City Disney Princesses and Star Wars characters.)

A Blockhead Died In New York...

One of the attendant joys of the release of the Watchemen movie has been all the pop culture parodies that have come with it. I thought I'd seen the best with the Futurama trailer and the Saturday morning cartoon, but I have come across a brilliant reworking of the graphic novel, using newspaper comic characters.

Web comic Player vs. Player has recreated the characters, portraying Popeye as Rorschach, Jon Arbuckle/Garfield as Nite Owl II, Charlie Brown as The Comedian, Dagwood as Dr. Manhattan,Dilbert as Ozymandias and Cathy as Silk Spectre II.

Be sure to read the full, five-panel series.

(Link via Super Punch)

If Cartoons Were Real

Seeing cartoons characters as they would like in real life is, well, disturbing. This photo-realistic Homer Simpson is from jaxpixeloo, and I would run in terror from him if I were to see him on the street.


Good news, everybody! A realistic version of a few of the Futurama cast, from Dylan Marvin. I think the year 3000 would be... all glory to the Hypnotoad.


A realistic Wile E. Coyote (Road-Runnerus Digestus) and Roadrunner (Accelleratti Incredibusc) wouldn't be so bad, but the Acme products would be devastating. From an old Fark contest, where there are many other examples.


Michael Paulus also takes the concept of real cartoons but approaches it from a whole other angle and showing the skeletal system of 22 different characters. Wonderfully odd.

(I'm actually on vacation right now. This post brought to you by the miracle of Blogger in Draft's Scheduled Post Publishing.)

The True Meaning of Christmas

The Peanuts gang and their classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas, seems the most open to mashup and light parody (see Hey Ya and SNL's clever version). I think it is because it has become part of our common pop culture heritage over the past 40 years, as special to kids as their parents and grandparents.

The latest I have come across is a 10-minute version of the ‘toon, voiced by the cast of Scrubs. It’s not just a rework, but their own dialogue done in character and it’s great, even if you don’t watch the show. J.D. plays Charlie Brown, Dr. Cox is Linus, Carla is Lucy, Turk is Schroeder, Elliott is Sally, Ted is Pigpen, among others. The mashup (does this qualify?) was reportedly made for a cast Christmas party.

And as a parting gift, my friend Steph sent me a link to The Christmas Spot, which has links to 101 classic Christmas videos and is where I found the Scrubs video. Merry Christmas everyone, and I’ll see you in a few days.

Spider-Man, You Blockhead!

Did you ever want to be a superhero, or a comic strip character for that matter? I don’t think I ever did but, having said that, my high school yearbook listed my destination as Bloom County.

But what if you were a comic strip character that became a superhero, which part of your personality would win? Great power or your schluby self? In one of those wonderful moments of pop culture serendipity, I came across a great Peanuts link over at Casual Slack soon after searching out the Hey Ya, Charlie Brown link. An artist named jdh has mashed together Marvel Comics characters with the Peanuts gang, to wonderful effect. Charlie Brown as Spider-Man, Linus as Thor, Lucy as The Hulk (Don’t make me crabby. You won’t like me when I’m crabby!)