My tribute to Snoopy’s dances of joy from the Peanuts cartoons. Two of the poses are taken directly from Schulz. But then the reality of dancing with ears has to intrude.
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Tag / dance
Dance like nobody’s looking
This is an aphorism I just don’t understand. If no-one is looking there is no way I am going to choose to dance just for the joy of it, because i find no joy in jigging about a bit for no reason. As far as I’m concerned, dance is a reason for clodhopping misery more than anything else. As ever, when I come across a bit of popular wisdom which after a moment’s thought turns out to be pure nonsense, I make fun of it.
Seagull dance – winter remix
I didn’t manage to do a strip without any cats in it on Monday, so to compensate I managed to do it in this one. It’s good to have Humprey Earthworm back.
Tail Jive
Here’s the first of the Sundays, and what could be more appropriate than to begin with a redraw of the first Smith strip ever to be published. The version below has been seen before on this blog, it was first published in the 1981 edition of the Skinners school magazine, “the Leopard”. I much prefer this redraw, which has overtones of Andy Warhol about it, and a minimum of movement lines. Besides, Smith’s learned a few new dance moves over the years…
