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Charles M. Schulz was an American cartoonist best known for creating the comic strip "Peanuts", featuring characters like Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Schulz wrote and drew the popular strip for 50 years until his death in 2000, producing over 18,000 strips. "Peanuts" was syndicated in over 2,600 newspapers and had an estimated 355 million readers worldwide at its peak. Schulz received numerous awards for his work, including the Congressional Gold Medal. The strip and its characters also inspired various TV specials, movies, and merchandise.
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- 1. Charles M. Schulz Charles Schulz is a American cartoonist who is very well known for his successful cartoon strip series called ‘Peanuts’ which went on for 50 years, and in that time, Schulz make over 18,000 cartoon strips for Peanuts. Schulz was born in November 26, 1922 and then died on February 12, 2000 at the age of 77. Many people think that Schulz is one of the most influential cartoonists that ever lived. The creator of Calvin And Hobbes, Bill Watterson, said that “…Schulz has blazed the wide trail that most every cartoonist since has tried to follow.” He got many awards, and even got his name on a star on the Hollywood ‘Walk Of Fame’. Schulz was awarded the Congressional Gold medal.
- 2. Peanuts Peanuts has quite a few characters but the main character is the prominent Charlie Brown and Snoopy. There is a long list of characters but there are the main 4 that started out the cartoon. These characters are Charlie, Snoopy, Patty and Shermy. Peanuts first launched in October 2, 1950 and ended in January 3, 2000. Peanuts was written and drawn my Charles Schulz and Schulz never had someone helping him do his drawing or writing as he felt like he was cutting corners. At peanuts highest peak, it had been in over 2,600 newspapers at once, and the amount of people reading it, were estimated to be roughly 355 million people over 75 countries. There were also Peanuts merchandise and a Peanuts TV show but Schulz said that the comic Strip and the TV show and very different things in his eyes.
- 3. Charlie Brown Charlie Brown is the main protagonist of the Peanuts strip and unlike most comics and drawings, where the protagonist is a hero and saves the day, things for Charlie Brown never seem to go his way. Although things always go wrong for Charlie Brown, he is still a loveable looser. He is always reffered to by his full name, with the exception from Peppermint Patty who calls him Chuck and Marcie who calls him Charles. Charlie Brown has lots of Determination and hope but is always dominated by his insecurities. Charlie Browns known catch phrase is “Good grief”. Charlie Brown has a dog called Snoopy who is considered the second main characters in the Peanuts strips.
- 4. Snoopy Snoopy start out in the comic strips and a very basic conventional dog, but later then turned into one of main characters of the show and also one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world. Schulz got his idea for Snoopy from his child hood dog, spike. Snoopy doesn’t talk verbally in the TV series, his emotions and answers to things are done thought Growling, sniffing, whistling, snapping his fingers and other sounds a human could make. Snoopy’s best friend is a small yellow bird, called Woodstock. He is a side kick of sorts, snoopy’s assistant, but also his friend. For the first time, Snoopy slept on top of his dog house in 1958, and after that, it was rare for Snoopy to go inside the dog house, unless he was going in to retrieve something. It is quite a well known image to see Snoopy laying on top of his dog house.
- 5. Spin off There was a TV show spin off, of the famous comic strip Peanuts. Some of the characters from Peanuts first appeared on TV, when they were on a commercial for the Ford Motor Company. These adverts were animated by Bill Melendez , and later on, Bill became friends with Charles Schulz . They then teamed up with Producer Lee Mendelson, and decided to make a to minute animated sequence which was called ‘A boy Named Charlie Brown’. This later lead onto the making of the first half hour show, called ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’. The success of the Charlie Brown Christmas lead onto CBS making many more shows in the future. They went on to make 30 more animated specials.
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