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Making poor Lucy cry... Hägar, you truly are horrible. (I guess Dick Tracy is no longer the only one getting coal in his stocking this year from cartoonist/The Complete Peanuts designer Seth.)
And in the cosmic coincidence department: This first volume of Hägar covers the 1973 - 1974 strips, which just happen to be the same years covered in our most recently released collection of The Complete Peanuts. Make of that what you will.
I've been wondering how Seth feels about IDW's BLATANT theft of his design ever since I saw the Dick Tracy covers. It seems Little Orphan Annie is a close cousin to this design theft too. It's even extremely poorly done. The pixelation on the Dick Tracy volume I have is a disgrace.
The Dick Tracy volumes have at least gotten much better since the new editor came in on that series, overhauling the design a bit and shifting to a larger size to match IDW's great Terry & the Pirates reprints. The newer books in the Tracy series have been wonderful.
But now it seems that people think that the Seth/Peanuts design is the generic comic strip reprint template, and that their books won't be recognized as such if they don't use it. Kind of lazy.
Seth recently visited the center for cartoon studies and someone asked him how he felt about the dick tracy covers and he didn't seem that upset about it. He actually said he would rather they look like a book he designed than something badly designed.
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