BBC article & interview here



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...

"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."

Of Snoopy and Charlie Brown, he said: "I've always been a little bit intrigued by the fact that dogs apparently tolerate the actions of the children with whom they are playing. It's almost as if the dogs are smarter than the kids...

Schulz generally worked five weeks in advance. On 14 December 1999, fans were dismayed to learn that he would be hanging up his pen because he had cancer. He said that his cartoon for 3 January 2000 would be the final daily release. It would be followed on 13 February with the final strip for a Sunday newspaper. He died one day before that last strip ran...

Back in 1977, Schulz insisted that the cartoonist's role was mostly to point out problems rather than trying to solve them, but there was one lesson that people could take from his work. He said: "I suppose one of the solutions is, as Charlie Brown, just to keep on trying. He never gives up. And if anybody should give up, he should."

This recently appeared around the corner from my gf's house:

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Good grief......

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He was a WWII vet. IIRC, Snoopy was the name of his halftrack.

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That's kinda profound. Never considered Charlie that way before, but quite true.

Peanuts Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz Used to Live In Colorado Springs - X1039

Charles M Schultz used to live at 2321 North El Paso Street in Colorado Springs. In the early 2000's The family that lived there went to remodel the house and found that one entire wall in one of the bedrooms was covered with very early drawings of the Peanuts characters.

The entire wall was removed and is on display at the Charles M. Schultz museum in California

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From the Wikipedia article:

"Peanuts pretty much defines the modern comic strip", said Bill Watterson, "so even now it's hard to see it with fresh eyes."

High praise from another wonderful cartoonist

...At its height, Peanuts was published daily in 2,600 papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages. Over nearly 50 years, Schulz drew 17,897 published Peanuts strips. The strips, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of more than $1 billion per year, with Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually...

That certainly isn't peanuts!

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Can't find anything about that origin of "Snoopy" but according to the Wikipedia article:

...He served as a staff sergeant with the 20th Armored Division in Europe during World War II, as a squad leader on a .50 caliber machine gun team. His unit saw combat only at the very end of the war. Schulz said he had only one opportunity to fire his machine gun but forgot to load it, and that the German soldier he could have fired at willingly surrendered...

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I do like Snoopy and Woodstock!

I just remembered that I modified a Snoopy cartoon image several years ago after my gf went on an Amazon spending spree:

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I edited one with my cat "RIP" years ago.

So do I. That's a working phone.

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Within the last week or so, I saw a TV show about the shooting of Schulz’s business manager. He was shot and critically wounded in his office at the Schulz building, by his much older estranged wife, who then tried to commit suicide. Apparently, he was having an affair with his secretary, and had decided to get a divorce. Because of a prenuptial agreement, his wife was SOL, and wasn’t happy about it. Schulz had apparently stressed to his business manager his disappointment in the affair. Strangely enough, after the shooting and attempted suicide, Schulz posted the $2 million dollar bail for the estranged wife! CRAZY situation.
Larry

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My wife has always been a fan. Has contributed a nice amount of $$$$ to the Charles Schultz estate.
A small example of her collection:

Back in the Stone Age when I was an undergrad at Ohio State, the campus daily newspaper (The Lantern) contained only one cartoon strip. Peanuts. It was about the only part of the paper worth reading.

I read the comic everyday in the paper.There are other cool characters as well.
Every year we put out a Charlie Brown tree deco.

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My little brother had one of these.

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I have the same tree!

I put it up Christmas Eve night.