With the long-term goal of creating a public Peanuts wiki or
database,
I'm looking for volunteers to describe Peanuts strips,
day-by-day. Examples (I did a couple of months just to get things
started):
http://peanuts.ktj.googlepages.com/peanuts-apr-1953.txt
http://peanuts.ktj.googlepages.com/peanuts-may-1959.txt
http://peanuts.ktj.googlepages.com/index.html
[index page]
The plain text format is very simple:
Date: the date of the strip (this must be the first item for any
strip; the other items below can be in any order)
Description: a brief description of the strip (aside from Date, this
is the only "required" tags; all tags below are optional)
Speaking: list of characters who speak in the strip, separated by
commas
Non-speaking: list of characters who appear, but do not speak
Mentioned: characters who are mentioned, but neither appear nor speak
Comment: comments on the strip, including famous firsts, similarities
to other strips, continuity errors, etc
Discussion: questions/notes on the strip that aren't ready for
comments (examples: "Is this the first time we see Schroeder playing
piano?", "Isn't there a similar strip with Patty and Violet later?",
"I don't get the joke here-- can someone please help?")
Category: list of categories for this strip (examples [don't type in
the stuff in brackets]: Speechless [strip has no spoken words], Lucy
Counts, Birthday [character's birthday is mentioned], Age
[character's
age is mentioned], Self-Reference [strip addresses reader directly or
references comic strips], Snoopy Imitation [Snoopy imitates
something], Red Baron [Snoopy pursues the Red Baron], Schroeder Plays
Piano, Football Gag [Lucy pulls football away from CB], Kite Flying,
etc, etc, etc)
Wikipedia: list of real-world people/organizations/works/etc that
would be found in Wikipedia (Doggie in the Window [26 May 1953], Roy
Campanella [24 Jun 1954], Virgil Thomson [18 Jul 1954], etc).
Any other tags: if you think I missed an im****tant tag above, feel
free to add your own. Just separate tags with an empty line.
Of course, almost no strip will have all the tags above-- most strips
will just have 4-5 of the tags above.
Specific example (for those interested, but not visiting the URLs
above):
====== EXAMPLE =======
Date: 29 May 1959
Description: Snoopy wonders if he should see Sally (who's just come
home), like Schroeder and Patty and others are doing, but decides to
wait until her eyes are open.
Speaking: Snoopy
Non-speaking: Schroeder, Patty
Mentioned: Charlie Brown, Sally
Discussion: In a future comic strip, several kids mention that
they've
never seen Sally, which seems to contradict this strip.
====== EXAMPLE =======
Obviously, the best source of strips will be the Complete Peanuts
collection.
To co-ordinate (so 2 people don't do the same month), I'm asking
volunteers to email me first, but feel free to just do a month and
email it to me.
I'll upload all submissions to:
http://peanuts.ktj.googlepages.com/index.html
The submissions will be public domain: people are free to download
them and use them in any way they want.
Things to keep in mind:
% Please convert all submissions to plain text-- it's the only format
everyone can read.
% Avoid quoting dialog word for word. Just summarize what's said.
% Don't worry too much about accuracy/perfection for now. I
eventually
plan to put this all in a wiki, where people can perfect it to their
heart's delight. For now, the im****tant thing is quantity, not
quality.
% The index in the back of each Complete Peanuts book is often
helpful
in figuring out if something really is a famous first.
% In my examples, I've made some arbitrary decisions (Snoopy's
thought
bubbles count as speech, unnamed birds aren't worth listing, etc)--
you don't have to agree with my decisions when describing strips.
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