Good Greaf!
Physical Description: The design is only on the front of this shirt. The print is all done in a very dark blue that almost looks black in some lights.
There is an eight-lined structure to start off this shirt. The first line is not unlike a beginning parenthesis. The bottom 1/8th or so of what would be the end of the dark line is covered by a that short of a thicker line. These lines run into a full line that is almost upside-down-swoosh-like. That curved line in turn flows into a dark blue curved line. The final connection is made as a "smaller then the left parenthesis" right parenthesis completes the journey. The lines just described could be said to have gone in a bubbly U pattern. This is not the end of the story. If the first full line were to have completed a circle there would be a line connected to the first full line with another line. Sadly, that is not the case so we need to contend with the reality that there is no inbetween. All there is is a small dark blue curved line. To the direct right is another such line. In the middle, there is yet another dark blue curved line, but its orientation is downward. All and all, I would call the shape formed a cloud.
The next image portion we see ends up being a word bubble which does not connect to itself, but is close enough to where a reasonable person would make the inference. The left side of the bubble is done in a quite thick way while the right is all done up thin as normal. The bubble is oval and has a bent triangle portion jetting out. Inside the bubble is "GOOD" in a more refined comic font, and then " GRAEF! " in a thicker version of the same font. The letters of "GRAEF!" alternate in position; if we are to give the "G" prominence as the first letter, then the "R" and the "E" go down from the alternating pattern.
To continue right would be to see another cloud formation. This time the cloud is formed by a bunch of connected dark blue lines.
Very close to this cloud is a new line formation. The first line of this formation is a line that goes top-left to bottom-right and forever remains unconnected to any other line on the design. The next line is formed by a north-northeast that perpendicts to a line that goes east-southeast. This line will be the only one of its kind to not be disrupted. The next line is the same as the line before excepting that like all following lines like it, it is disrupted twice.
The first disruption is formed by a long and skinny vertical box shape. A thick line is drawn on the right side to give a strong feeling of distinction away from a wider rectangular shape. This rectangular shape has a thick top line that overshoots and a thicker than thin right line. Inside of the rectangular shape is a few incidental dashes and then a six-pointed star figure of dark blue in the style of Madison Avenue punk rock and not of David. In the middle of the star is a clear circle with a dot and a trailing line going back out to the star of paint. From the bottom left corner of the star are three diagonal lines going from top right to bottom left. The first of these lines has an allowance of clear surrounding its tip and has three trailing dots at its tail. The second of the lines is thick like a milkshake or your mother's butt. The part connecting to the star is long, followed by a short trailer and then another long trailer line. The third line is one unified line of comparably medium length. At bottom of the thin vertical box and the wide rectangle is a thin horizontal box with more coloring in the variety of the rectangle. At the right end of this horizontal box is a tiny little 1x2 units rectangle of higher per capita dot coloring. I have just described to you a golf ball breaking through a window with a pane. This is the first distractor of the lines we were just discussing so long ago. The second distracton of the /_ lines is a door. The door is formed by a thick top line that overlaps the first of the lines we've been talking about. A thick vertical down line shoots all the way down to another horizontal line. In between this line heaven is some more dot coloring, with a very pronounced wood texture about 3/4's the way to the top. Take the golf ball and heavily dot color it and move it over 3 inches. That, my friends, is your door handle. Three of the /_ are interrupted by the broken window and the door. The final one is interrupted first by a grass formation that is as if five shark fin shapes had an orgy and were lightly hatch colored and secondly by a step structure.
Step structures are formed by radical interpretations of the possibilities of rectangles that all go northwest-southeast. The first rectangle has a darker version of the grass coloring surrounding a rectangle within it. This inside rectangle is lightly dot colored and brings to mind a doormat. A thin, clear rectangle follows. After that a really small step is colored the way of the first outside rectangle. Then a rectangle after that is very lightly dot colored. This is the house of my dreams; broken windows and half-built.
There is grass underneath the window as described and also in other areas. The first patch of grass tops out a little bit above a horizon line that can finally be mentioned. The horizon line is the straightest and least intrusive line on the entire shirt. Anyway, the next grass patch is between the dog's nose and the boy's butt. The next patch to the left side is a little behind and below Snoopy. The fifth and final patch is due south of Charlie's shadow.
Take a trip back to the "GOOD GRAEF! " speak bubble. The parts that did not connect are interrupted due to a hat. The hat is formed first by a circle thick on the left and thin on the right. Underneath that circle is a wobbly oval split into three. Portions 2 and 3 of the oval have some minor dot coloring. The bill of the hat is formed by a sharp arrow top that has a clear spot on the left. Every hat has a head, and the head here is formed by a circle with a nose sticking out. There is an eyebrow formed by a quick line. An eye, a dot. A shape not unlike a "C" could be interpreted as an ear. A capsule shape is filled in, thus forming the open mouth which says "GOOD GRAEF! ".
The neck of Charlie Brown could have been straight, but the front part of his neck is sticking out further then it ought. Charlie's shirt in this design is not the yellow with black he is known as wearing. Instead, it is clear and lined. His left arm is at his face. The right arm and hand with four fingers is down at the side. He is wearing shorts that are heavily dot colored. His legs, clothed and bare, are immediately next to each other, as are his socks. His are dot colored heavily enough to almost blend into the line colored shoes that are in a round shadow.
Snoopy is thinking "UH-OH!!!". Snoopy is colored in lines. He has the same hat and shadow that Charlie does.
Woodstock is standing and holding a golf club on the walkway.
This is a shirt that was going to be thrown away by the original owner. He sells replacement windows. Graef happens to be a producer of windows.
Thus, I am confused. If Graef made the shirt, why a window company would want to show their windows breaking does not make business sense to me. Less likely, a jealous competitor may have produced this shirt to insult Graef. The fun of the shirt would be for nearly anyone who has ever seen a Peanuts comic strip. After getting past the simple meme, I am left wanting for more. Maybe that makes me pretensious. If it does, the other shirts in my collection have spoiled me. "I demand more", "YEAH!".
This shirt has the feel of those unprofessional shirts one could pay money to have a chance of winning at a carnival. The "Ghetto Bugs & Taz" shirt being the prime example off the top of my head. I am constanly surprised that there is a public that will accept such poor work. Granted, I will wear some of those shirts if they are given to me for free. That isn't the point. I should be paid to wear such embarrassing work. I imagine that there are really only a handful of people that care enough about replacement windows to understand this shirt. Please, if you are one of those people, write me and tell me what exactly this shirt means. Is it pro or anti-Graef?
I am also surprised that United Media, as far as my limited knowledge is aware of, has not done anything about this gross injustice to their properties. I hope this description will not start any proceedings. The producers of the shirt probably were just after an instinctual laugh so people would remember the name of their company. Still, my mission dictates that I can not just leave this shirt that was given to me, and which i accepted, to be undocumented. Even then, maybe United Media doesn't want me to talk honestly about how I feel about their property. I'm going to anyway because I know I am within fair use.
Peanuts was a good enough strip in my estimation. I'm not a comic person at all, though, so perhaps my opinion should be taken less heavily. Then again, by reading this write-up, the reader asked for my opinion. The truly indifferent reader would not have gotten this far. The cast of characters is perhaps the most interesting part to Peanuts. Everyone plays their unique part over and over again in new ways. What I dislike most about Peanuts was Charles Schulz's cocky attitude about his work. He may be the most read comic writer, but popularity means nothing. Charlie Brown himself would never be in a position where he could be that arrogant. To Schulz's credit, the strip itself never got too far from what it was; but to hear Schulz speak was as if he did anything more than write a comic strip.
