tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3295141461906714106.post1232687729156380122..comments2024-03-28T07:57:28.843-07:00Comments on High-Low: Sequart Reprints: Peanuts 1967-68 and 1969-70Rob Cloughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12671203398083374216noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3295141461906714106.post-66579777039047218242013-08-09T08:45:28.130-07:002013-08-09T08:45:28.130-07:00Holy crow! You're totally right, Nat. When yo...Holy crow! You're totally right, Nat. When you mentioned the bird character on the poster, it instantly clicked in my mind--I had completely forgotten it. Schulz was ahead of the curve!Rob Cloughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12671203398083374216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3295141461906714106.post-75639388157413595162013-08-07T11:55:11.650-07:002013-08-07T11:55:11.650-07:00I'm stumbling across this six years after you ...I'm stumbling across this six years after you posted this, and not seeing the responses you got on SeqArt, but I can't help responding to one statement: "Schulz assigned him a bird as a sidekick and pointedly named him Woodstock, devoting an entire strip to this revelation. It was an odd gag, as though making a reference to hippies was funny in and of itself." I think you're missing part of the reference here. Schulz had already established the little bird character, and had established him as a hippie years before Woodstock... and then the Woodstock music festival used a simplified bird character on their Arnold Skolnick-designed posters (you can see an image of it on the Wikipedia page for Woodstock.) It's that connection, that Woodstock is *that* bird, perhaps even that the music festival was named after him, that the was the joke.Nat Gertlerhttp://www.aboutcomics.comnoreply@blogger.com