{"id":308,"date":"2007-04-03T21:56:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T04:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2007-04-03T21:56:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T04:56:03","slug":"pigpen-in-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/pigpen-in-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigpen in the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grrrrrr&#8230; I just wrote a write-up of the new book <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?034547984X\"><strong>The Dirt on Pigpen<\/strong><\/a>, only to have my computer eat it. I&#8217;m not going to try to recreate it word-for-word. So let me sum up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pigpen is more a concept than a character, and the strips are more about how people react to him than about how he reacts to hmself.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a fair amount of repetition involved &#8211; Pigpen attracts dirt in odd ways, Pigpen gets his snacks dirty.<\/li>\n<li>Odder still is when it isn&#8217;t repeating &#8212; sizable portions of the strip seem like they&#8217;re using any Pigpen appearance they can find to flesh out the relatively thin book (96 pages). Doesn&#8217;t matter if it isn&#8217;t about Pigpen, if Pigpen doesn&#8217;t speak, if he&#8217;s only in one panel, if he isn&#8217;t recognizable&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>And oddest still is a strip or two which do focus on Pigpen but which don&#8217;t focus on his unsanitary nature. Shermy makes a good character for a generic joke; Pigpen, not so much.<\/li>\n<li>Worth looking for: the Peppermint Patty\/Pigpen romance storyline.<\/li>\n<li>One for the nitpickers: Pigpen&#8217;s name is hyphenated for the first 3\/4 of the book, and at various times is in quotes (double or single) or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If a book made up of Pigpen cartoons sounds like a good idea to you, then you should like this (and order it <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?034547984X\">here<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>I also got my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/AAUGH.com\/to.htm?156097723X\"><strong>The Complete Peanuts: 1963 to 1964<\/strong><\/a> (not in stores until May). Haven&#8217;t had the chance to read it all yet, but I&#8217;ve read what the cover refers to as an &#8220;Introduction by Bill Melendez&#8221; and the interior describes as &#8220;Foreword by Bill Melendez&#8221;. A couple quick notes on that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Having Peanuts animator Bill Melendez do the opening text is a switch from the earlier volumes, where notables from other realms would give their insight on Peanuts.<\/li>\n<li>It is a foreword, not an introduction. Bill talks about his work on Peanuts, and how the whole animation thing came together. He&#8217;s not talking about the strips that constitutes the body of the book&#8230; not introducing it. (Yeah, I&#8217;m in a nitpicky mood today!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grrrrrr&#8230; I just wrote a write-up of the new book The Dirt on Pigpen, only to have my computer eat it. I&#8217;m not going to try to recreate it word-for-word. So let me sum up: Pigpen is more a concept than a character, and the strips are more about how &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-releases","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}