Well, obviously today’s strip is a homage to the late, great Charles Schulz’s classic comic and animated masterpiece, PEANUTS. But it’s also inspired by a recent homage strip rendered INCREDIBLY by D.C. Simpson of OZY and MILLIE, staring his titular characters as if they were drawn by the incomparable Walt Kelly of POGO! D.C. captured Kelly’s artwork, line sensitivity and HUMOR so perfectly, that I had to give today’s strip a try. I still think D.C. did HIS homage better, but I had a lot of fun anyway.
As for the strips content NOT being the gang in costumes, I have to admit that while I LOVE Halloween I really didn’t want to do a story like that for the same reasons as Dandy… I just finished the Demon story and didn’t want to do another similar looking gag. Of course, some of you may recal I did a similar “Peanuts” themed gag LAST year around this time… but I was never quite happy with how that turned out.
