Art For Art’s Sake #368: When Moebius Met Peanuts
by Richard Bruton
A cornucopia of artistic delights awaits — it’s Art For Art’s Sake …
Later on, we’ll end with a wonderful bit of Moebius and a very strange meeting of Moebius and Peanuts. But first, this …
Paul Mavrides — ‘Comic Mural’ 1992
Otto Schmidt
Jonathan Edwards — Celebrating the 75th of the Beano‘s Dennis the Menace
Shawn McManus — The Thing
Leonardo Romero
Peach Momoko — Ghost Rider
Frederico Vicentino — Indy
Bernie Wrightson — Swamp Thing (1982)
John McCrea — Hitman and Joker (Commission)
Jack Cole — Plastic Man (1952)
Rick Veitch — TMNT (Cover to Amazing Heroes Magazine 1989)
Jim Woodring
Tom Sutton — Vampirella
Matt Wagner (Commission)
Art Adams / Linda Medley — X-Men
Marcos Martin
George Perez — beautifully painted cover to The New Teen Titans Annual #1 (1982)
Sam Kieth — Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters — The Death of Bruce collection cover
And finally, a little Moebius, from the 2006 Inside Moebius book …
And finally finally, that time Moebius did Peanuts…
I tried to figure out when exactly Moebius had done this and why. Didn’t manage to get the answer to that one, but it did lead me to this at Boing Boing from almost 10 years ago now, where Jesse Orion starts off with the brilliant Moebius tale, 40 Days in the Desert B (1999), a wordless sketchbook meditation of a thing, showcasing the imagination of the artist, which looked like this …
And with that as his base, Onion then receates the entire thing, all 70 pieces of art, with characters from Peanuts by Charles Schulz.
From that Boing Boing piece, they quote Onion from his introduction:
“This book is a satire of a certain animosity between French and American artists who have, here unnamed, considered the opposing country’s art, specifically comic art, as objectively terrible. Here, I present you, the reader, with a visual ‘handshake’ between two of the greatest contributors to comic art in their respective countries.”
So yes, weird. But good weird. The sort of strange thing you see in comics and art that just makes things a bit stranger, a bit better. Sadly, the links from Boing Boing to The Onion‘s piece are dead by now. But there are these great examples from the article of how The Onion made Moebius meet Peanuts …
