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Category: Comics
How to Get the Love You Deserve (Life in Hell)
I did not know that Chris Ware did a cover for Candide
Fear (Life in Hell)
Charlie Brown, existentialist placekicker
Existentialism has been accused of being defeatist and depressing (and Sartre didn’t help his cause with terms like ‘abandonment’, ‘despair’, and ‘nausea’). But Peanuts also demonstrates the optimism of the philosophy. Why does Charlie Brown continue to go out to the pitcher’s mound, despite his 50 year losing streak? Why try to kick the football, when Lucy has always pulled it away at the last second? Because there is an infinite gap between the past and the present. Regardless of what has come before, there is always the possibility of change. Monstrous freedom is a double edged sword. We exist, and are responsible. This is both liberating and terrifying.
From “Sartre & Peanuts” by Nathan Radke.
Some Really Lovely Books Acquired, 1.21.2014 (Thanks Ryan!)
I was pleasantly surprised to get a box of great stuff in the mail from Ryan Mihaly, a frequent contributor to this blog (check out the second part of his interview with translator Ilan Stavans). Inside the handsome Penguin Classics Goethe was this little card:
I had never even heard of The Thoughtbook, Fitzgerald’s boyhood diary. Sample:
Tom Clark is The Best.
And always Hell.
Thanks again, Ryan!
“One Bird” — Tom Clark
Thor Brand Pickled Herring (Tony Millionaire)
“Say Something Surrealistic” (Zippy the Pinhead)
The Locked Room — Tom Gauld
Little Nemo New Year — Winsor McCay
Last Day (Peanuts)
Miraculous chunk of meat (Calvin and Hobbes)
Get It (Peanuts)
Escape — Glen Baxter
Surveillance (Calvin and Hobbes)
An Acute Case — Glen Baxter
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