Peanuts programming at San Diego Comic-Con 2015
- By : Nat
- Category : Schulz/Peanuts news
There is at least some Peanuts-related programming during each of the four full days of next week’s Comic-Con International: San Diego. Here are descriptions copy’n’pasted from the official listings.
Peanuts 65th Anniversary Panel
In 2015, Charles M. Schulz’s iconic Peanuts gang celebrates not only their 65th anniversary but also two years of the current volume of the Peanuts comic book at BOOM! Studios’ all-ages imprint, KaBOOM! Come celebrate Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the gang’s birthday with moderator Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics) and Peanuts contributors Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), and Art Baltazar (Tiny Titans), Colleen Coover (Eisner-nominated Bandette I), along with Lex Fajardo, managing editor for Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates, and Cesar Gaellgos, archivist of the Schulz Museum.
Thursday July 9, 2015 11:00am – 12:00pm
Room 5AB
Room 5AB
Nat notes: this panel is clearly driven by the upcoming book Peanuts: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz, where various artists provide their own interpretation of Peanuts, given the listing of three comics creators (very talented, all of ’em!) who have no other links to Peanuts that I know of, although the presence of the amiable and newly-married Lex and the helpful and name-misspelled Cesar Gallegos should provide some balance to that. This is in one of the bigger rooms. Painful for me, because while I will be at the convention that day, it’s schedule at the same time as a Spotlight panel on Maggie Thompson, whom I consider a pal (but then again, so do a large portion of the people in comics.)
Comics Arts Conference #7: Cracking Peanuts
Stephen J. Lind (Washington and Lee University) provides insights into the enthymematic nature of comic strip argumentation by examining how Charles Schulz was able to incorporate provocative ideas into his mainstreamPeanuts comic strip. John Auxier (Trinity Western University) applies research on distressed couple communication patterns to examine the relational content of Peanuts strips during the late 1960s-early 1970s, a time of marital discord for Charles Schulz.
Friday July 10, 2015 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Room 26AB
Room 26AB
Nat’s notes: If I could go to just one panel, it would be this one… but I’m not slated to be at the con that day. Lind is the author of that upcoming A Charlie Brown Religion, which as I’ve noted is the book I’m most looking forward to these days, among the books that I was not involved in. The Comics Arts Conference panels are the convention’s scholarly track, and this will be in a smaller room than the previous panel.
What’s New From Abrams ComicArts
Charles Kochman (editorial director), Chad Beckerman(creative director), Chip Kidd (graphic designer and author), and special guests talk about upcoming Abrams ComicArts projects from their fall 2015 list, including original graphic novels Trashed by Derf Backderf (author ofMy Friend Dahmer) and Ghetto Klown by John Leguizamo (an adaptation of his award-winning autobiographical HBO stage performance); art monographs Only What’s Necessary : Charles M. Schultz and The Art of Peanuts by Chip Kidd andWill Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel by Paul Levitz (former president and publisher of DC Comics); and the latest trading card collection from Topps: Star Wars: The Original Topps Trading Card Series, Volume 1. Find out what’s also coming next year from Abrams ComicArts as they reveal some works in progress, including videos and never-before-seen titles and art.
Saturday July 11, 2015 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Room 28DE
Room 28DE
Nat’s notes: this panel will have a little on the upcoming art retrospective, the title of which will presumably be spelled correctly unlike what I’ve cut’n’pasted here. But I obviously there will be much more coverage the next day in the panel listed below:
Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schultz and the Art of Peanuts
Celebrate the 65th anniversary of Peanuts with Chip Kidd (graphic designer, editor-at-large for Pantheon), and Paige Braddock (creative director at Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates) as they preview their upcoming coffee table book, Only What’s Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts. See rare and never-before seen highlights from the extraordinary archives at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California, including unpublished strips and preliminary artwork photographed by award-winning photographer Geoff Spear that reveal a rare glimpse into the creative process of the world’s most beloved and influential cartoonist.
Sunday July 12, 2015 10:00am – 11:00am
Room 29AB
Room 29AB
Nat’s notes: as I said, this is cut’n’paste from Comic-Con’s listing, so the misspelling of Schulz’s name is theirs, not mine. Chip Kidd is an interesting fellow and a good speaker.
