Studio Classroom: Aug. 2000, p.36
"Peanuts" Creator Drew on Life Lessons
For millins of fans, "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz wasn't just a
cartoonist. He was part of their lives. Othwe cartoonists admired and
imitated Schulz.
When Schulz died last February, "Peanuts" fans felt genuine grief. At
a memorial service, thousands of fans turned out to pay tribute to the
man who had touched million of lives.
Sculz himself probably would have been embrassed by the whole thing.
An intesely private man in life, his death couldn't have been more
public. News of his death was carried in thousands of newspapers, TV
stations and radio stations around the world.
Perhaps that was the secret of his success: His very personal dramas
were always played out on a very public stage. Schulz took his
feelings of lineliness, frustrations and rejection and put them into
his drawings.
"If you were to read the strip, oh, for just a few months, you would
know me," he said, "because everything that I am goes into the strip."
That must have been especially true with Charlie Brown, the eternally
hapless everyman, who spent nearly half a century trying to find out
the real meaning of Christmas. Or at least win just one basrball gams.
Of all tributes to Charles Schulz, cartoonist Cathy Guisewite, (who
draws the "Cathy" comic stirp) said it best: "What he did for me...he
did for millions of people in zillions of ways, He gave everyone in the
world characters who knew exactly how we felt."
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