Book-Lover Humor Times Eight

I am an easy target for "bookish" cartoons because they seldom fail to make me laugh...or at least smile. That's why I can't help clipping them when I run across them someplace on the web. 

I doubt that all of these will be new to anyone, but I hope there's something here that makes your day at least a little bit better:

How Charles M. Schultz Used Peanuts to Promote Reading and Libraries

I love the way that Charles Schultz used his Peanuts comic strip to promote reading and libraries over the decades. Here are just a few examples of how he did it:

The real beauty of Schultz sharing his reading passion the way he did is that he didn't always have to use long, complicated panels to do it. Sometimes he did it without using any words at all, so that even his youngest readers could see their favorite characters enjoying books so often, and in so many ways. 

(Click on images for a larger view.)

Charlie Brown's Lost Library Book

When Snoopy Won the Cliché Trophy

I love how happy Snoopy is about winning that huge Cliché trophy -  and how Lucy works with him to reach near cliché perfection. 

This one got me wondering which contemporary author is holding that same trophy today. 

Making Classic Lit Look Cool

It's not the most original idea for bookish humor, but this article from The New Yorker did manage to hit the nail on the head with its rebranding of "classic female-authored novels."  I wonder if a few high school English teachers might want to try this for some of their assigned reading when school starts back up in a few weeks.  

Here are a couple of my favorites from the piece:

"To Kill a Mockingbird

Six-year-old Scout Finch tells the story of her father, the woke AF lawyer Atticus. While her dad defends Tom Robinson, a black man who’s wrongly #MeTooed in the South, Scout discovers through her relationship with a mysterious neighbor that not all incels are bad. "

"House of Mirth

Lily Bart isn’t like other girls—she’s poor and, at twenty-nine, old as hell for a single lady! Even though she’s totally gorge and not just some basic thot, no one’s even tried to put a ring on it, not even her BFF, Lawrence Seldon, a broke-ass lawyer who works hard for the modern equivalent of what, like, maybe $70K, max? #Struggle. As Lily hobnobs with the New York élite, she’s increasingly drawn to Seldon in this classic Ross-and-Rachel romance." 

Other classics ranging from Little Women to Gone with the Wind are included in the article, so take a look to see if one or two of your favorites are there. It's fun.