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Charles M. Schulz Beloved Cartoonist 1950 - Future Generations A Report by Shealia Chambers

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Charles M. SchulzBeloved Cartoonist

1950 - Future Generations

A Report by Shealia Chambers

HistoryCharles Monroe Schulz was born on November 26, 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as the only child of Dena and Carl Schulz.

He was nicknamed “Sparky,” after a cartoon character of the time, at just 2 days old by his uncle with whom he later shared his Sundays reading the funnies together.

In Kindergarten, his teacher would tell him: “One day, Charles, you are going to be an artist.”

When Schulz came of age, he took classes by mail at the Federal School (now known as Art Instruction Schools) before he was drafted in WWII in 1943.

After his service, Schulz returned to the school as an instructor and remained teaching there during his first years as a cartoonist illustrating the comic “Peanuts.”

Comic Strips

The above comic was the first Peanut’s strip which appeared in seven different newspapers on October 2, 1950.

The comic strip, Peanuts, ran from October 2, 1950 to January 3, 2000 has had had 17,897 comics within 50 years.

The strip had humble beginnings, only appearing in 7 comics the first few years and reaching the 100 newspaper mark in 1956.

Now, that number has grown worldwide to over 2,000 newspapers and is the world’s number one most widely distributed comic strip in history!

AnimationsThe first animated made-for-TV special was “A Charlie Brown Christmas” which aired Christmas, 1964.

Since then, there have been 30 TV specials and 4 feature films, including the most popular holiday specials, “It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown,” “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving,” and “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!”

In addition to film, the Peanuts also take center stage in the most widely preformed play “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” which opened in 1967.

A Life in PicturesCharles Schulz has often said he drew from his real life

experiences to make the Peanuts comic.

The comics are well known for having children characters with adult characteristics. Rather than showing the differences, this emphasizes the similarities between adults and children.

Each character has developed a strong personality over the years.

Schulz describes it like this: “I introduced the slight incident,” meaning that he was able to take the most mundane of everyday situations and make them humorous with the use of strongly developed personality traits in each character.

He was the first (or at least the most successful) to do this in comics at the time.

Devices or reoccurring gags1) Kite Eating Tree2) Schroeder’s Music3) Linus’s Security Blanket4) Lucy’s Psychiatry Booth5) Snoopy’s Doghouse6) Snoopy Himself7) The Red Baron8) Woodstock9) Loosing Baseball Games10) Kicking The Football11) The Great Pumpkin12) Little Red Haired Girl

Public AcclaimOn April 9, 1965 Time did a cover article on Schulz.

In 1974 Schulz presided as the Grand Marshal of the Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.

“Charles Schulz did not invent “Good Greif!” but we can’t say it without thinking of Charlie Brown.” & “Peanuts is as distinctively American as Mom and Apple Pie.” – M. Thomas Inge

“Most cartoonists have some form of help. Charles Schulz, who wrote, drew, lettered, and inked every Peanut’s strip for almost 50 years, was an exception.” –Brian Walker

“Schulz was the most influential cartoonist of his generation.”

“Everyone identified with one or more of the Peanut’s gang.” –Robert C. Harvey

AwardsCharles M. Schulz was proclaimed “Cartoonist of the Year” in both 1958 by Yale University and in 1978 by The International Pavilion of Humor in Montreal.

In 1962, Peanuts was named “Best Humor Strip of the Year” by the National Cartoonists Society.

Schulz became the first cartoonist to be awarded two Reubens by the National Cartoonists Society in 1964.

In 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas, won a Peabody Award and an Emmy for outstanding children's programming.

In 1973, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” received an Emmy.

May 24, 1967 is the legislature-proclaimed “Charles Schulz Day” in California and was later changed to February 7, 2000.

In 1986 Schulz inducted into Cartoonist Hall of Fame by the Museum of Cartoon Art.

May 2000 Posthumous awarding of the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Cartoonists Society.

From the Mouth of Schulz“If you read the strip for just a few months, you will know me because everything that I am goes into the strip. That is me.” –Charles Schulz

“Happiness does not create humor. There’s nothing funny about being happy. Sadness creates humor… It’s funny because it’s not happening to us.” –Charles Schulz

“Charlie Brown has to be the one who suffers, because he is a caricature of the average person. Most of us are much more acquainted with losing than we are with winning. Winning is great, but it isn’t funny.” –Charles Schulz

Charlie Brown started out as an obsessive perfectionist, became the quintessential loser, Lucy is the fussbudget, Linus, the philosopher, Schroeder, the artist, Pigpen, the slob, and Snoopy, the dreamer.” –Charles Schulz

Schulz MuseumThe Charles M. Schulz Museum opened on August 17th 2002, in his memory and dedication to his life’s work.

It is located in his home town of Santa Rosa, CA, adjacent from the Redwood Empire Ice Arena host to the Snoopy Gift Shop.

Fun FactsSchulz never liked the name “Peanuts” for his comic strips; he wanted to call them “Li'l Folks!”

Schulz is accredited with coining the phrase, “security blanket.”

Kodak was the first to sponsor the Peanuts characters by using them in a camera handbook.

The Apollo 10 carried Peanuts into outer space in May 1969!

Santa Rosa, CA, location of the Charles M. Schulz Museum, is also host to many artist’s statue’s of Peanuts characters!

The Peanuts Stamp was released on May 17, 2001.

There is a website that is dedicated to people with Peanut’s tattoos!

There is a YouTube channel called Peanuts Online.

Some of My Favorites!

Good Greif! THE END

Sources:Charles. M. Schulz MuseumWebsite

http://www.schulzmuseum.org/

“My Anxieties Have Anxieties” by Charles M. Schulz © 1977

“You Don’t Look 35, Charlie Brown” by Charles M. Schulz © 1985

“Comics as Culture” by M. Thomas Inge © 1990

“The Art of the Funnies: An Aesthetic History” by Robert C. Harvey © 1994

“The Comics Since 1945” by Brian Walker © 2002

http://i-love-cartoons.com/Peanuts.php

www.snoopy.com

http://www.fivecentsplease.org/dpb/tattoo.html

http://www.youtube.com/user/PeanutsOnline