In a Peanuts strip from 1952, Charlie Brown stands before a rack of comic books with titles like GOUGE and STAB! , ready to revel in gore. In 1987 the artist Magdalena Suarez Frimkess appropriated this darkly funny scene for a wall ceramic created with her late husband, Michael Frimkess. The grid of four tiles features an illustration of a fanciful townhouse, along with drawings inspired by the comic book Archie’s Madhouse and antic cells from Donald Duck and The Katzenjammer Kids . In the top left corner stands Charlie Brown, arms extended, exclaiming, “What a beautiful gory layout!” The panel, which hints at the chaos lurking behind pleasant domestic façades, is currently on view in a small, potent exhibition of the ninety-six-year-old artist’s work at David Zwirner in Los Angeles. Organized by the ceramicist Shio Kusaka, it includes more than three dozen drawings and ceramic pieces dating back to 1970.…