Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 30, 2016

I’ll bet they didn’t get sent to the principal’s office about argumentatively complaining about not being able to draw a cow’s leg either.

Sorry, but I’m unfamiliar with McKuen. Why couldn’t it be Jackson Pollock?

“Sorry, but I’m unfamiliar with McKuen…”

Many apologies that you’re unfamiliar with the material. Next time we’ll have Schulz check with you first and try to come up with something that we’re sure you’ll find uproariously funny.

This one’s particularly dated.

McKuen was titled as “The Poet Laureate of San Francisco”. He had a pretty good voice in his younger days. Later, Glenn Yarborough sang the songs he wrote. I doubt he ever gave drawing cow’s legs a try.

Actually, Picasso is on record as stating when watching some little kids drawing: “At their age, I could draw like Rafaello…it took me thirty years to learn to draw like them.”

“Seasons in the Sun”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY__eaedtOA

I met Rod McKuen here in Boston 33 years ago. He even gave me an autographed book of his poems, and we stayed in touch for several years until I relocated. RIP.

I was trying to think of a contemporary celebrity poet/writer who’d fill the bill in an updated strip.

Couldn’t think of any contemporary poets.

Thoughts?

Picasso’s Cow Leg Period

Draw a cow’s leg? I’d rather draw a BEER!!

When I was in first or second grade, I knew about J. Edgar Hoover.

Wow! I haven’t thought about Rod McKuen in years. He was one of my favorite poets back in my Artsy Fartsy phase. Thank God that part of my life is over.

Don’t any of the Peanuts fans realize that Rod McKuen wrote the music and lyrics for the movie “A Boy Named Charlie Brown,” the first Peanuts theatrical release, in 1969, when this comic came out? It was probably an in-joke or a nod from Charles Schulz.

Rod McKuen sang the theme to the 1969 Peanuts movie “A Boy Named Charlie Brown”, ironically.

Dr. Seuss once was visiting a classroom, and he drew some pictures on the chalkboard. The kids weren’t impressed. They told him one of the other kids could draw better. Dr. Seuss told him to come up to the chalkboard and draw something. And he would always finish telling this story by saying, “And you know what? He COULD draw better than me!” (This probably never actually happened, of course, but it’s a nice story even so.)

"Rod"ney Dangerfield I can relate to…

I don’t know who this guy is either.Time to ask Google.

OK, I’ve asked Google and Rod was a singer-songwriter, musician and poet who sadly died last year.xxx

@cdward ^I agree and it happens all the time over in the Luannaverse.

According to Wikipedia, McKuen wrote the lyrics to the songs for “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” in 1969, which is when this strip was originally published. So this strip was probably a little nod of thanks, or similar.

@ mugens and cdward:I wasn’t being sarcastic because templo didn’t know who the person was — although that’s easily remedied these days with google, as kchishol points out. It seemed to me — and I of course may be wrong — that templo wanted the cartoonist to “improve” the strip because of his (templo’s) lack of knowledge. I probably overreacted.

oh heavens sake

My favorite McKuen bit is when he plays the beatnik on a novelty 45 called “The Mummy.” The title character sounds like a sad sack, and goes from one person to the next, announcing that he’s the Mummy, and they react with fear. He gets to the beatnik, who doesn’t react at first, but then remembers his manners and drawls, “Like… eek.”

FYI: Rod McKuen sang “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” at the end of the 1969 animated movie of the same name.

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Hey, Snoopy_Fan. Can you check your email?

She’s your sister, Charlie Brown.