You’re a flaccid weenie, Charlie Brown

irk Sillsbee in the “Design 2007” issue of Los Angeles City Beat:

“Where the Peanuts gang was congenitally static, Flora’s graphics positively exploded with energy, color, and behavioral abandon. His was often giddy imagery that bordered on visual mayhem. A mopey depressive like Charlie Brown would have no place in Flora’s oeuvre, which was populated with clowns, ecstatics, intoxicants, psychopaths, and exultant maniacs. Flora was the rare graphic artist whose work looked like a two-dimensional party on each page.”

P.S. Gotta hand it to whoever designs City Beat’s web pages—took an 11″ x 22.5″ meticulously detailed Flora montage and reduced it to the size of a commemorative stamp. And you can’t click to enlarge it. Reminds us of what Eric von Stroheim said about the editor who butchered his film Greed: “He had nothing on his mind but his hat.”UPDATE: Sillsbee infos that the print version of LACB used the same art-unfriendly layout. In the “Design” issue, no less.