Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Peanuts - The Great Pumpkin

I grew up watching older and at that time current Charlie Brown cartoons. My favorite character was Linus, because he was really smart, and when Charlie was having trouble he'd go to Linus for wisdom.

My favorite cartoon of Peanuts was 'The Great Pumpkin', it's more of a movie though. The Great Pumpkin is a Santa Claus-like being that seems to exist only in the imagination of Linus. Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. In the movie (and in every comic strip) the Great Pumpkin fails to appear, and a humiliated but undefeated Linus vows to wait for him again the following Halloween, but not this time:

4 comments:

  1. RyanNovember 1, 2006 at 10:28 AM

    Really like your design for the Great Pumpkin! No offense to the character designs here.

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  2. GregNovember 1, 2006 at 8:58 PM

    Great illustration Mark. You did another bang up job on the coloring and shading.

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  3. roryNovember 2, 2006 at 9:28 AM

    nice , Mark ! I wish they'd take your design and do a " The Great Pumkins Revenge" !

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  4. TomNovember 2, 2006 at 11:45 PM

    I love it. good job.

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