Charles Schulz (Creator of Peanuts): Fourteen Interesting Facts

Charles Schulz was the creator of the comic strip Miserywhich was published in over 2,600 newspapers and in 21 languages ​​in 1975. The characters (Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, Pig-pen, Woodstock, Peppermint Patty, Schroeder, Sally, Marcy, etc.) have all been he became well-liked over the years, bringing Schulz endorsements of over $1 billion a year (proof of how beloved his characters were).

Here are fourteen interesting facts about the life of Charles:

• Charles Schulz was an only child, the son of Dena and Carl Schulz.
• His uncle nicknamed him Sparky, and many of his friends called him that.
• He got his first dog at age 12 and named him Spike. Spike became the inspiration for Snoopy.
• He was drafted in 1943 and served as a squad leader. In most of it, he saw little actual combat, but once when he was asked to attack an artillery camp; he refused to do so because he saw a dog enter.
• He dressed very well even while working, but he NEVER got ink on himself.
• He encouraged many new fighters and cartoonists.
• He had no assistants to help him with his comic strip, he did it all himself.
• He took the time every day to walk to the ice arena for lunch, despite the deadlines.
• At one point in his career he needed heart surgery, so what did he do? She worked three months before her fringe so she didn’t have to miss a day.
• He had a personal code of ethics that he would not cross, and he stuck to it for over eighteen thousand strips.
• It made people feel important: no matter what they did.
• He was inducted into the Cartoonists Hall of Fame in 1986.
• He frequently had panic attacks and chronic depression.
• After being diagnosed with colon cancer, he put down the pen and swore he would Misery it would not be drawn by anyone else. Why? Because, as Charles so eloquently said, “This is my excuse for existing. No one else will touch it.” And so it was, in the year 2000, Charles died in his sleep just hours before the last strip of him appeared in the Sunday papers.

when asked why Misery had such universal audience appeal, his response was this: “All love is unrequited; all baseball games are lost; all test scores are D-minus; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and football is always lost.” withdraw”. From those words, we can clearly conclude that the personal success of the characters is not the appeal, so it must be that we humans love to root for the underdog!