Calvin and Hobbes Creator Reviews New Charles Schulz Bio
The Grief That Made ‘Peanuts’ Good
October 12, 2007; Page W5
SCHULZ AND PEANUTS: A BIOGRAPHY
By David Michaelis
(Harper, 655 pages, $34.95)
The comic strip “Peanuts” was more than a decade old when I started reading it as a kid in the mid-1960s. At that time, “Peanuts” was becoming a force of pop culture, with best-selling books and a newly burgeoning merchandising empire of plastic dolls, sweatshirts, calendars and television specials. The overwhelming commercial success of the strip often overshadows its artistic triumph, but throughout its 50-year run, Charles Schulz wrote and drew every panel himself, making his comic strip an extremely personal record of his thoughts. It was a model of artistic depth and integrity that left a deep impression on me. While growing up, I collected the annual “Peanuts” books and used them as a personal cartooning course, copying the drawings with the idea of someday becoming the next Charles Schulz.
Categories: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, Charles Schulz, review
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