Art School Peanuts Creator Charles Schulz Attended: "Industry on Parade" 1954 NAM
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Charles Monroe Schulz (
November 26, 1922 --
February 12,
2000), nicknamed
Sparky, was an
American cartoonist, best known for the comic strip
Peanuts.
Early life and education
Born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in
Saint Paul. He was the only child of
Carl Schulz, who was born in
Germany, and Dena Halverson, who was
Norwegian. His uncle called him "Sparky" after the horse
Spark Plug in
Billy DeBeck's comic strip,
Barney Google...
Military service and post-war jobs
In 1943, Schulz was drafted into the
United States Army. He served as a staff sergeant with the
20th Armored Division in
Europe, as a squad leader on a
.50 caliber machine gun team...
After being discharged in late
1945, Schulz returned to
Minneapolis. He did lettering for a
Roman Catholic comic magazine,
Timeless Topix, and then, in July 1946, took a job at
Art Instruction, Inc., reviewing and grading lessons submitted by students. Schulz himself had been a student of the school, taking a correspondence course from it before he was drafted...
Career
Schulz's first regular cartoons, a weekly series of one-panel jokes entitled
Li'l Folks, were published from
1947 to
1950 by the
St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name
Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys as well as one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like
Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to
The Saturday Evening Post; the first out of 17 one-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, he tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the
Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the
1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from the
Pioneer Press in
January 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the
United Feature Syndicate with the one-panel series Li'l Folks, and the syndicate became interested. However, by that time Schulz had also developed a comic strip, using normally four panels rather than one, and reportedly to Schulz's delight, the syndicate preferred this version. Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. The weekly Sunday-page debuted on January 6,
1952. After a somewhat slow beginning, Peanuts eventually became one of the most popular comic strips of all time, as well as one of the most influential. Schulz also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called
It's Only a Game (1957--1959), but he abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From
1956 to
1965 he contributed a single-panel strip ("
Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to
Youth, a publication associated with the
Church of God.
In
1957 and
1961 he illustrated two volumes of
Art Linkletter's
Kids Say the Darndest Things, and in 1964 a collection of letters,
Dear President Johnson, by
Bill Adler.
Peanuts
At its height, Peanuts was published daily in 2,600 papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages. Over the nearly 50 years that Peanuts was published, Schulz drew nearly 18,
000 strips. The strips themselves, 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. During the life of the strip, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in late
1997 to celebrate his 75th birthday; reruns of the strip ran during his vacation, the only time reruns occurred while Schulz was alive.
Schulz said that his routine every morning consisted of first eating a jelly donut, and then going through the day's mail with his secretary before sitting down to write and draw the day's strip at his studio. After coming up with an idea (which he said could take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours), he began drawing it, which took about an hour for dailies and three hours for
Sunday strips. Unlike many other successful cartoonists, Schulz never used assistants in producing the strip; he refused to hire an inker or letterer, saying that "it would be equivalent to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts for him..."