An biography about the creator of snoopy
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'You have to just draw something that you hope is funny': How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy
Charles M Schulz drew his beloved Peanuts strip for 50 years until his announcement on 14 December 1999 that ill health was forcing him to retire. In History looks at how an unassuming cartoonist built a billion-dollar empire out of the lives of a group of children, a dog and a bird.
Charles M Schulz's timeless creation Charlie Brown may have been as popular as any character in all of literature, but the cartoonist was modest about the scope of his miniature parables. In a 1977 BBC interview, he said: "I'm talking only about the minor everyday problems in life. Leo Tolstoy dealt with the major problems of the world. I'm only dealing with why we all have the feeling that people don't like us."
This did not mean that he felt as if he was dealing with trivial matters. He said: "I'm always very muc
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Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist (1922–2000)
For other people with similar names, see Charles Schultz.
| Charles M. Schulz | |
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Schulz drawing Charlie Brown in 1956 | |
| Born | Charles Monroe Schulz (1922-11-26)November 26, 1922[1] Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 2000(2000-02-12) (aged 77) Santa Rosa, California, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Inker |
Notable works | Peanuts |
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| Children | 5, including Meredith and Craig |
| peanutsstudio.com | |
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (SHUULTS; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)[2] was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists in history,
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Charles M. Schulz Biography
On the morning of Sunday, February 13, 2000, newspaper readers opened their comic pages as they had for nearly fifty years to read the latest adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts Gang. This Sunday was different, though; mere hours before newspapers hit doorsteps with the final original Peanuts comic strip, its creator Charles M. Schulz, who once described his life as being “one of rejection,” passed away peacefully in his sleep the night before, succumbing to complications from colon cancer. It was a poetic ending to the life of a devoted cartoonist who, from his earliest memories, knew that all he wanted to do was “draw funny pictures.”
The poetry of Schulz’s life began two days after he was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, when an uncle nicknamed him “Sparky” after the horse Spark Plug from the Barney Google comic strip. Sparky’s father, Carl, was of German heritage and his mother, Dena, came