![]() ![]() Schulz gave up drawing when he was drafted into the US Army in the fall of 1942. ![]() While working odd jobs, he drew sketches and submitted them for publication. ![]() Paul’s Central High School, Schulz enrolled in a correspondence course at the Federal School of Applied Cartooning (later renamed the Art Instruction Schools) in Minneapolis. In 1940, at the end of his senior year at St. In 1937, the young aspiring cartoonist published a sketch of the Schulz family dog, Spike, in Robert Ripley’s popular Believe It or Not! newspaper feature. Having read the Sunday funnies every week with his father from an early age, Charles became enchanted by the art of cartooning. Apart from two years spent in Needles, California, Charles grew up in the Twin Cities. ![]() Altogether, Schulz produced more than 18,000 strips over nearly fifty years.īorn on November 26, 1922, in Minneapolis, Charles Monroe Schulz was the only child of German immigrant Carl Schulz and Dena Halverson Schulz. By the time of Schulz’s death, Peanuts was reaching readers in twenty-one languages across some 2,600 newspapers in seventy-five countries. Charles Schulz was a cartoonist best known as the creator of Peanuts, the syndicated comic strip that featured the characters Snoopy and Charlie Brown and expanded into a franchise that included TV shows, movies, and toys. ![]()
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