Your Dashboard Art Jumble's RSS Art Jumble on Twitter Art Jumble on Facebook

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:

Ryan said...

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

Greg said...

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

rory said...

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

Tom said...

I love it. good job.