Benjamin L. Clark
@benjaminlclark
Eisner-winning comic museum curator and book writer. PERSONAL acc’t. Big fan of Snoopy and the gang. AKA BenjClark, BLClark. 📷 by Chris Eliopoulos @chriseliopoulos.com Santa Rosa, California
It's too hot. Here's a thread of times a Peanuts character was chilling in a bucket to cool off. ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 8/12/1957
Here’s the intro panel for my exhibition Peanuts Evolution: 1990s currently running. At the Schulz Museum.
This pose, famous among the most dedicated Peanuts fans, is known as the "Good Going, Ellen!" Pose source is the Peanuts comic strip originally published 10/13/1990. #ellentaaffezwillich #comichistory
Mort Walker, in his Lexicon Comicana, lumped it in with regular onomatopoeia, but called it cheating LOL. It's funny he didn't coin some new word for it, since his book's definitions are largely his own inventions. There's a new edition out by @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social but I haven't seen it.
Looking at Peanuts baseball strips, and this is a funny one where Sally deploys a typicalgraphical eggcorn. But the setup caught my eye. Was there some kind of famous box score flub where it was reported that a team won 11,000 to 3? ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published July 11, 1977
Comics page header Newsday (Nassau Edition) Hempstead, New York · Saturday, July 7, 1979
The fourth(?) clipping sent to me of Ken Levine’s hilarious Snoopy cartoon for a recent issue of the @newyorker.com for the Schulz Museum. It’s been popular! With a bit of lunch on it from the donor it won’t go into our archives but will get good use on the museum volunteers bulletin board.
When your stomach wants shrimp ... ✒️Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, originally published 4 July 1961 #shrimp
This is also Carl Rose, and it may go a little way toward explaining his process.
Ok, let's see everyone's favorite James Thurber cartoons. This is up there for me. His drawings are so funny, and alive. His writing still surprises, and all of it makes me laugh.
Right, they were of little monetary value for a long time. Here's an ad from a comic art dealer in Oct. 1978 offering 1950s Peanuts dailies (which one of these on the wall is from 1959), for only $75. You could get others much cheaper! Some for only $10.
A little Body Heat x Peanuts trivia: I *think* there may be at least three Peanuts originals tacked up in whatever bar they shot this scene in. Yes, I've tried to figure out where this was, but hit a lot of dead ends. It turns out 1981 was a really long time ago.
Driving mister manners to his day camp this morning #makeaterriblecomicday2026
Adventure Comics #35 (Cover date Feb. 1939, also) dc.fandom.com/wiki/Adventu...
And, yes, we do have the Snoopy ones, including the very hard-to-find, early one from ca. 1984, in our collection at the Schulz Museum. This is from our exhibition, Paperback Peanuts, from a year or two ago.
The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social is auctioning some of their READ posters (including some signed ones) --- I'd really love to read/listen to a deep dive from the people who made these posters happen. Some are so great, some are so weird. I bet more than a few have some great stories attached.
Happy Anniversary, Garfield. 📷Heritage Auctions, running right now: movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-po...
Had to check my clippings from that era. I knew I had at least one Sunday, and alas, it was only one, and it's not this one. ✒️Walt Kelly's Pogo by Doyle & Sternecky as published in the Santa Rosa [California] Press Democrat. Originally published 4/1/1990
Great Popeye tie. Handpainted? His tattoos are cool, too. Did not notice the watch-on-the-belt maneuver in the smaller version, which makes sense for a guy using his hands a lot at work.
Brady Lake in Dateline Danger by John Saunders and Alden McWilliams