Archive for: small child
Dr. Strange! Explained by a Nine-Year-Old
My son explains the appeal of Lee/Ditko’s Dr. Strange — plus fan art!
Marx For Dummies
The books breezes through ten common objections to Marxism, with Eagleton acidly and efficiently dispatching each in turn.
Perfect Peanuts
After she read him the above from the 1953-54 Fantagraphics Peanuts collection, my son said to my wife, “Yes, that’s right, because people aren’t perfect. Only things are perfect.” To which my wife replied, “Well, actually, things aren’t exactly perfect either. Nothing is really perfect.” So my son thought about that for a second, and [...]
Spiritual Enlightenment from Peanuts
I was reading the 1963 Fantagraphics Peanuts collection to my son (now on sale!) he’s gotten really into them recently. Anyway, there’s one fantastic series of strips where Linus paints a Biblical mural on the ceiling of Snoopy’s doghouse. In perhaps the best, Linus comments that he isn’t sure what Antiochus Epiphanes of the Maccabee [...]

