Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922 in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google).
In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It Or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post--as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit.
He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts--and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate). The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952.
Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day--and the day before his last strip was published--having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand--an unmatched achievement in comics.
| ||||||||||||
Frequently Bought Together
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Many Faces of Snoopy,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The Many Faces of Snoopy (Peanuts) (Paperback)
I bought this book for my husband for Christmas. He is Snoopy fan, but not a Peanuts fan. That makes this so great because it is all about Snoopy. The others in the gang are there but they are second fiddle to him. My husband loved the book. It is all cartoons about Snoopy. I especially liked the fancy "Snoopy Paper" that was thrown in here and their. Since the cartoons are black and white, the paper adds a touch of color to the book. I would recomend this book to any Snoopy fan!
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice, hefty Snoopy sampler,
By Blake Petit "Novelist, columnist & reviewer" (Ama, Louisiana United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Many Faces of Snoopy (Peanuts) (Paperback)
Nice, thick volume with tons of Snoopy cartoons. Although the book is called the "Many" faces of Snoopy, it's actually divided into just five sections: Joe Cool, the Attorney, the World War I Flying Ace (the biggest section, of course), Beagle Scout and Writing Ace. Still, even only looking at those five facets of Snoopy's multi-layered personality packs this book with over 300 pages of cartoons from throughout the 50-year run of Peanuts. Definitely worth getting for the Snoopy fan.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Snoopy book,
By
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: The Many Faces of Snoopy (Peanuts) (Paperback)
My sister and I are big Snoopy fans. I ordered this book for her Christmas gift and almost kept it for myself!
It is great and good fun reading.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
