WALNUTS

Walnuts is a Peanuts parody of the Trump presidency.

During the astonishing lunacy of Donald Trump’s presidential term the thought occurred to me that Lucy from Peanuts and Donald Trump were exactly the same creature. The journalist Christopher Caldwell described Lucy thus: "She's an American nightmare, a combination of zero brains, infinite appetites and infinite self-esteem, who is (for that reason) able to run roughshod over all her playmates."  I suddenly realised that a parodic version of Peanuts could be the perfect cartoon vehicle to explore this Trumpian world. Children responsible for issues of consequence for all humanity was too funny and, scarily, too close to home to pass up. And, of course, Trump himself was and is an endlessly flowing pipeline of raw comic material. 

Walnuts was almost taken up by the one newspaper in the world I most wanted it to appear in. Almost. Oh well.