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Re:The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’ by tempguy9999 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:24PM (#21411989)
I guess people just get tired of having to be machines of continual creation. It must be terribly wearing. I'm not surprised it becomes just crank-turning after a while.

Unrelated but I'd like to plug this which is brilliant, though it seems the author burned out a while ago. One of the best comics I've come across https://abstrusegoose.com/

Hit Random a few times and you'll start getting some good ones. He seems to be a high level physicist so there are some impenetrable bits of maths etc. which you can safely skip.

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Re:The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’ by KineticLensman on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:44PM (#21413538)
> I guess people just get tired of having to be machines of continual creation.

Gary Larson (Far Side) [0] is a great example of a great cartoonist who quit while he was ahead. I was both sad and appreciative when he stopped. Fawlty Towers [1] is an example of a series whose creators also intentionally stopped it before it jumped the shark.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Larson

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawlty_Towers

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Re:The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’ by lonelappde on Saturday November 02, 2019 @01:12AM (#21426003)
If you skip the abstruse stuff, it's just goose.
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Re:The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’ by tempguy9999 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @08:02AM (#21427154)
I've no idea what you mean, but upvoted anyway for making me chuckle
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