Charles M. Schulz
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Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts.
- See also:
Peanuts
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown.
Quotes
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- It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.
- As quoted in a profile at HarperCollins
- A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.
- You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown! (1985) ISBN 0030056241
- I never give my work to somebody else and say, "What do you think about that?" I just don't trust anybody. If I think it's funny, or if I think it's silly, I send it in anyway because I'm just trying to please myself. I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous. There's no way in the world you can anticipate what your reader is going to like or dislike.
- National Cartoonist Society talk, 1994 [1]
- If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books — but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
- 1992, as quoted by Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip This Modern World (21 February 2000)
- I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.
- Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
- The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.
- Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
Misattributed
[edit]- Don't worry about the world coming to an end today ...... It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Came from an online quiz falsely attributed to Schulz. However, in the 13 June 1980 Peanuts strip, Marcie does say "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir. In fact, it's already tomorrow in Australia."
External links
[edit]Encyclopedic article on Charles M. Schulz on Wikipedia
Media related to Charles M. Schulz on Wikimedia Commons
- Official Peanuts site
- Obituary at CNN
- Brief tribute at h2g2 (BBC)
- Brief biography at HarperCollins