Paul’s Central High School, Schulz enrolled in a correspondence course at the Federal School of Applied Cartooning in Minneapolis. The burgeoning cartoonist received a thrill in 1937, when his drawing of the family dog, Spike, was published in Robert Ripley’s popular Believe It or Not! feature. Segar’s Thimble Theatre (which featured Popeye), Percy Crosby’s Skippy and Al Capp’s L’il Abner. He sat down with his dad to read the Sunday funny papers every week, becoming a fan of E.C. Schulz realized at an early age that he wanted to become a cartoonist. The only child of dad Carl, a German immigrant and barber, and mom Dena, a waitress turned homemaker, Schulz spent most of his childhood in the Twin Cities, outside of a two-year stint in Needles, California, after the onset of the Great Depression. Early LifeĬharles Monroe Schulz was born on November 26, 1922, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Peanuts also expanded into TV specials like the Emmy-winning A Charlie Brown Christmas, as well as books and a huge merchandise collection. Featuring hero Charlie Brown, over the years the strip would run in more than 2,000 newspapers and in many languages. Charles Schulz launched his comic strip Peanuts in 1950.
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