"Peanuts" by Charles Schultz | Cartoonist's Track

Even though I’ve known of “Peanuts” and “Calvin and Hobbes” for a while now, I’ve never really read them before! So this was a pretty new and fun experience for me. As someone who’s from another country and learned of these comics pretty recently, I now understand all of the love this country has for its lovely peanuts and Calvin characters. I’ve definitely learned to appreciate them more and even now that I challenged myself to do a comic strip inspired by Peanuts this week. This past week, my personal life has been pretty difficult, so in order to take things on a positive perspective, I decided to illustrate my struggles at home as a Peanut’s “oh brother” kind of moment. The Peanuts style is a very iconic and simplistic style so I wanted to tackle it for this 3-4 comic strip challenge. I was mostly inspired visually but I also incorporated the idea that something as bad as a rat infestation could be very anticlimactic in a comic like Peanuts. At the end, I was very pleased with the end result and I’m very excited to try to make even more Cartoonist Track that involve different art styles and comic formats.