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CHARLES SCHULZ
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip.
Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Saint Paul. He was the only child of Carl Schulz, who was German, and Dena, who was Norwegian. His uncle nicknamed him "Sparky" after the horse Spark Plug in the Barney Google comic strip.
Schulz attended St. Paul's Richard Gordon Elementary School, where he skipped two half-grades. He became a shy and isolated teenager, perhaps as a result of being the youngest in his class at Central High School.
After his mother died in February 1943, he was drafted into the United States Army and was sent to Fort Campbell in Kentucky. He was shipped to Europe two years later to fight in World War II with the U.S. 20th Armored Division. Schulz attained the rank of Staff Sergeant and was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge.
After leaving the army in 1945, he returned to Minneapolis where he took a job as an art teacher at Art Instruction, Inc. — he had taken correspondence courses before he was drafted. Schulz, before having his comics published, began doing lettering work for a Catholic comic magazine titled Timeless Topix, where he would rush back and forth from dropping off his lettering work and teaching at Art Instruction Schools, Inc.
Schulz's drawings were first published by Robert Ripley in his Ripley's Believe It or Not!. His first regular cartoons, Li'l Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post; the first of seventeen single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped in January, 1950.
Later that year, Schulz approached the United Feature Syndicate with his best strips from Li'l Folks, and Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950. The strip became one of the most popular comic strips of all time. He also had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip called It's Only a Game (1957 – 1959), but abandoned it due to the demands of the successful Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he also contributed a single-panel strip ("Young Pillars") featuring teenagers to Youth, a publication associated with the Church of God (Anderson).
Charlie Brown, the principal character for Peanuts, was named after a co-worker at the Art Instruction Schools; he drew much of his inspiration, however, from his own life:
*Like Charlie Brown, Schulz's father was a barber and his mother a housewife.
*Schulz had a dog when he was a boy. Unlike Snoopy the beagle, it was a pointer. Eventually, it was revealed that Snoopy had a desert-dwelling brother named Spike.
*Spike's residence, outside of Needles, California, was likely influenced by the few years (1928 – 1930) that the Schulz family lived there; they had moved to Needles to join other family members who had relocated from Minnesota to tend to an ill cousin.[3]
*Schulz was also shy and withdrawn.
*Schulz's "Little Red-Haired Girl" was Donna Johnson, an Art Instruction Schools accountant with whom he had a relationship. She rejected his marriage proposal, but remained a friend for the rest of his life.
*Linus and Shermy were both named for good friends of his (Linus Maurer and Sherman Plepler, respectively).
Lucy was inspired by Joyce Halverson, his first wife.
*Peppermint Patty was inspired by Patricia Swanson, one of his cousins on his mother's side.[4]
Schulz moved briefly to Colorado Springs, Colorado. He painted a wall in that home for his daughter Meredith, featuring Patty, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. The wall was removed in 2001 and donated to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. The restored artwork by Schulz is printed in the paperback edition of Chip Kidd's book Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz.
Schulz's family returned to Minneapolis and stayed until 1958. They then moved to Sebastopol, California, where Schulz built his first studio. It was here that Schulz was interviewed for the unaired television documentary A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Some of the footage was eventually used in a later documentary titled Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz. The original documentary is available on DVD from The Charles M. Schulz Museum.
Schulz's father died while visiting him in 1966, the same year his Sebastopol studio burned down. By 1969, Schulz had moved to Santa Rosa, California, where he lived and worked for more than 30 years.
Schulz had a long association with ice sports, as both figure skating and ice hockey featured prominently in his cartoons. In Santa Rosa, he was the owner of the Redwood Empire Ice Arena, which opened in 1969. Schulz's daughter Amy served as a model for the figure skating in the 1980 television special She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown. Schulz also was very active in Senior Ice Hockey tournaments; in 1975, he formed Snoopy's Senior World Hockey Tournament at his Redwood Empire Ice Arena, and in 1981, Schulz was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to the sport of hockey in the United States. In 1998, he hosted the 1st ever Over 75 Hockey Tournament (although goalies could be younger - 60). In 2001, Saint Paul renamed The Highland Park Ice Arena the "Charles Schulz Arena" in his honor.
The first full-scale biography of Schulz, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography, by David Michaelis, was released in October 2007. The book has been heavily criticized by the Schulz family, while Michaelis maintains that there is "no question" his work is accurate.[5] However, fellow artist Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin & Hobbes) feels that the biography does justice to Schulz's legacy, while giving insight into the emotional impetus of the creation of the strips.[6]
In light of David Michaelis' biography and the controversy surrounding his interpretation of the personality that was Charles Schulz, responses from his family reveal some intimate knowledge about the Schulz's persona beyond that of mere artist. [1]
Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years without interruption and appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. In November 1999 Schulz suffered a stroke, and later it was discovered that he had colon cancer that had metastasized. Because of the chemotherapy and the fact he could not read or see clearly, he announced his retirement on December 14, 1999. This was difficult for Schulz, and he was quoted as saying to Al Roker on The Today Show, "I never dreamed that this would happen to me. I always had the feeling that I would stay with the strip until I was in my early eighties, or something like that. But all of sudden it's gone. I did not take it away. This has been taken away from me.
Schulz died in Santa Rosa of complications from colon cancer at 9:45 p.m. on February 26, 2000, at age 77. He was interred in Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Sebastopol.
The last original strip ran the day after his death. In it, a statement was included from Schulz that his family wished for the strip to end when he was no longer able to produce it. Schulz had previously predicted that the strip would outlive him, with his reason being that comic strips are usually drawn weeks before their publication. As part of his will, Schulz had requested that the Peanuts characters remain as authentic as possible and that no new comic strips based on them be drawn. United Features has legal ownership of the strip, but his wishes have been honored, although reruns of the strip are still being syndicated to newspapers. New television specials have also been produced since Schulz's death, but the stories are based on previous strips.
Schulz had been asked if, for his final Peanuts strip, Charlie Brown would finally get to kick that football after so many decades. His response: "Oh, no! Definitely not! I couldn't have Charlie Brown kick that football; that would be a terrible disservice to him after nearly half a century."
He was honored on May 27, 2000, by cartoonists of 42 comic strips paying homage to him and Peanuts.[7]
Schulz received the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award in 1962 for Peanuts, the Society's Elzie Segar Award in 1980, their Reuben Award for 1955 and 1964, and their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. He was also a hockey fan; in 1981, Schulz was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding contributions to the sport of hockey in the United States, and he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993. On June 28, 1996, Schulz was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, adjacent to Walt Disney's. A replica of this star appears outside his former studio in Santa Rosa. Schulz is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America, for his service to American youth.
On June 7, 2001 the United States Congress posthumously awarded Schulz the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor the US legislature can award. Schulz's widow, Jean, accepted the award on behalf of her late husband.
Schulz was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2007.
The greatest legacy Charles Schulz leaves behind is his creation, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang.
In 2000, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors rechristened the Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport in his honor. The airport's logo features Snoopy in goggles and scarf, taking to the skies on top of his red doghouse.
The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa opened on August 17, 2002, two blocks away from his former studio and celebrates his life's work and art of cartooning. A bronze statue of Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in Depot Park in downtown Santa Rosa.
The Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center at Sonoma State University is one of the largest libraries in the CSU system and the state of California with a 400,000 volume general collection and with a 750,000 volume automated retrieval system capacity. The $41.5 million building was named after Schulz and his wife donated a large sum of the money, $5 million, needed to build and furnish the structure. The library opened in 2000 and now stands as one of the largest buildings in the university.
Peanuts on Parade has been Saint Paul, Minnesota’s tribute to its favorite native cartoonist. It began in 2000 with the placing of 101 five-foot tall statues of Snoopy throughout the city of Saint Paul. Every summer for the next 4 years statues of a different Peanuts character were placed on the sidewalks of Saint Paul. In 2001 there was Charlie Brown Around Town, 2002 brought Looking for Lucy, then in 2003 along came Linus Blankets Saint Paul, ending in 2004 with Snoopy lying on his doghouse. The statues were auctioned off at the end of each summer, so some remain around the city but others have been The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa opened on August 17, 2002, two blocks away from his former studio and celebrates his life's work and art of cartooning. A bronze statue of Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in Depot Park in downtown Santa Rosa. relocated. Permanent, bronze statues of the Peanuts character are also found in Landmark Plaza in downtown Saint Paul.
For the past five years, Forbes Magazine has rated Schulz the second "highest paid deceased person" in America (after Elvis Presley), with his estate continuing to garner income totaling more than $32 million since his passing. According to the book "Where Are They Buried?" (as well as other sources), Charles M. Schulz's income during his lifetime totaled more than $1.1 billion, a true testament to the impact Schulz had on three generations of Americans who grew up with the Peanuts gang and "good Ol' Charlie Brown."
Schulz touched on religious themes in his work, including the classic television cartoon, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features the character Linus van Pelt quoting the King James Version of the Bible Luke 2:8-14 to explain "what Christmas is all about." In personal interviews Schulz mentioned that Linus represented his spiritual side.
Schulz, reared in the Lutheran faith, had been active in the Church of God (Anderson) as a young adult and then later taught Sunday school at a United Methodist Church. But, he remained a member of the Church of God (Anderson) until his death.
In an interview in the late 1980s, Schulz stated that his philosophical views had changed over the years:
I do not go to church anymore… I guess you might say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in."[8]
In the 1960s, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as being consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations during his lectures about the gospel, and as source material for several books, as he explained in his bestselling paperback book, The Gospel According to Peanuts.
Schulz counted George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Roy Crane (Wash Tubbs), Elzie C. Segar (Thimble Theater) and Percy Crosby (Skippy) among his influences.
It would be impossible to narrow down three or two or even one direct influence on [Schulz's] personal drawing style. The uniqueness of Peanuts has set it apart for years… That one-of-kind quality permeates every aspect of the strip and very clearly extends to the drawing. It is purely his with no clear forerunners and no subsequent pretenders.
—Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz, Rheta Grimsley Johnson, p. 68
References
1.^ Comics Buyers Guide #1636 (December 2007), p. 135
2.^ New Yorker Fact: Growing up with Charley Brown
3.^ Johnson, Rheta Grimsley (1989). Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 30 – 36. ISBN 0-8362-8097-0.
4.^ Michaelis, Dave (2007). Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. HarperCollins, 223. ISBN 0-06-621393-2.
5.^ Cohen, Patricia, Biography of ‘Peanuts’ Creator Stirs Family, . Retrieved on 8 October 2007
6.^ Watterson, Bill, The Grief That Made 'Peanuts' Good, . Retrieved on 16 October 2007
7.^ Cartoonists pay tribute to Charles M. Schulz and Peanuts.
8.^ Ibid, p. 137.
David Michaelis (2007). "Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography". Harper. ISBN 0066213932.
*M. Thomas Inge (Ed.) (2000). Charles M. Schulz: Conversations. Jackson, MS: Univ. Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-305-1.
*Rheta Grimsley Johnson (1989). Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz. New York: Pharos Books. ISBN 0-88687-553-6.
*Derrick Bang with Victor Lee. (2002 reprinting) 50 Years of Happiness: A Tribute to Charles M. Schulz. Santa Rosa, California: Charles M. Schulz Museum. ISBN 0-9685574-0-6
*Chip Kidd (Ed.) (2001). Peanuts: the Art of Charles M. Schulz. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-375-42097-5.
*Derrick Bang (Ed.) (2003). Charles M. Schulz: Li'l Beginnings. Santa Rosa, Charles M. Schulz Museum. ISBN 0-9745709-1-5.
*Charles M. Schulz (1980). "Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and Me." Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. ISBN 0-385-15805-X
Obituary, NY Times, February 14, 2000 Charles M. Schulz, 'Peanuts' Creator, Dies at 77
*Snoopy.com: Official Peanuts Website
*Schulz's home page
*Charles Schulz Museum
*Peanuts Collector Club
*Congressional Gold Medal
*Charles Schulz interviewed on National Public Radio, December 1990 (12 minutes)
*Charles M. Schulz at Find A Grave Retrieved on 2008-02-05
*National Cartoonists Society
*Redwood Empire Ice Arena
*Works by or about Charles M. Schulz in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
*[2] (Good Ol' Charles Schulz, American Masters series, PBS, October 2007)
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Charles M. Schulz (1922–2000)
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, Charles M. Schulz was the only child of Dena and Carl Schulz. From birth, comics played an important role in Schulz’s life. At just two days old, an uncle nicknamed him “Sparky” after the horse Spark Plug from the Barney Google comic strip, and throughout his youth he and his father shared a Sunday morning ritual reading the funnies. Schulz always knew he wanted to be a cartoonist and was very proud when Ripley’s newspaper feature, Believe it or Not, published his drawing of the family dog in 1937.
Schulz put his artistic ambitions on hold during World War II while serving as a machine-gun squad leader, though he regularly sketched episodes of daily army life in his sketchbook. Following his discharge in 1945, Schulz returned to St. Paul to pursue a cartooning career. Between 1947 and 1950, he drew a weekly comic panel for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and also sold seventeen comic gags to The Saturday Evening Post. After many rejection slips, Schulz finally realized his dream of creating a nationally-syndicated daily comic strip when Peanuts debuted in seven newspapers on October 2, 1950. By 1965, Schulz was twice honored with the Reuben Award by the National Cartoonists Society for his talents, and Peanuts was an international success.
When Schulz announced his retirement for health reasons in December 1999, Peanuts was in more than 2,600 newspapers worldwide; he died shortly thereafter, on Saturday, February 12, 2000, just hours before the final Peanuts Sunday strip appeared in newspapers. The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California, opened in his honor in August 2002, with the mission of preserving, displaying, and interpreting the art of this legendary cartoonist.
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Rahan, Sohn der Vorzeit
Originaltitel: Rahan, Fils des Âges Farouches
> Im Reich des schwarzen Riesen
script: Roger Lecureux
art: André Chéret
Reprints from Pif Gadget (Éditions Vaillant, 1969 series) #267 (7 avril 1974), #273 (20 mai 1974), #276 (10 juin 1974)
Bastei-Verlag / Deutschland 1978
Copyright: Editions de Vaillant / Frankreich
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DOHA, QATAR - DECEMBER 03: Lionel Messi of Argentina scores the team's first goal during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match between Argentina and Australia at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on December 03, 2022 in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 14: Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt arrives at the premiere of Summit Entertainment's "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on November 14, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Rahan, Sohn der Vorzeit
Originaltitel: Rahan, Fils des Âges Farouches
> Der Koloß aus der Tiefe
script: Roger Lecureux
art: André Chéret
Reprints from Pif Gadget (Éditions Vaillant, 1969 series) #176 (3 juillet 1972), #188 (25 septembre 1972)
Bastei-Verlag / Deutschland 1978
Copyright: Éditions de Vaillant / Frankreich
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ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2020. “SCASSAPOUND BRAVA VIRGI” - The ‘second liberation’ of Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi pledges to evict neofascist squatters [now evicted]. POLITICO.EU (25/06/2020).
ROME - The ‘second liberation’ of Rome - Mayor Virginia Raggi pledges to evict neofascist squatters. POLITICO.EU (25/06/2020).
ROME — For years, a sprawling state-owned palazzo in central Rome has had an unusual, and largely unwelcome, tenant: the far-right, neofascist group Casapound.
Since a group of militants stormed the office complex in late 2003, embossing their name in giant faux-marble letters on the facade, the squat has become a magnet for the group’s particular brand of counterculture, including fascist-supporting clothing labels, bookshops and tattoo parlors.
Successive city administrations have failed to take action against the squatters, who have cost the public more than €4 million in lost rent, according to a court in Rome.
But the group’s luck may be turning.
For Virginia Raggi, the mayor of Rome and a member of the anti-establishment 5Star Movement who is seeking reelection next year, evicting Casapound from its headquarters has become a personal crusade.
“We have been here for 16 years and we intend to stay. If someone decides to evict us let's see what happens on the day” — Casapound leader Simone Di Stefano.
When a judge earlier this month ordered police to seize the grand six-story building, in the Esquilino district near the Termini train station, Raggi called the decision a “historic victory” and vowed to make the building available for those suffering in Rome’s housing emergency.
“Yesterday was the liberation of Rome from the Nazi occupation,” she wrote in a Facebook post, citing the anniversary of the World War II capture of the city by Allied troops. “With this ruling, we can say we have liberated Rome a second time.”
Virginia Raggi / Facebook (05/06/2020).
www.facebook.com/virginia.raggi.m5sroma/photos/a.47180813...
The group won’t go without a fight, said Simone Di Stefano, one of its leaders.
“We have been here for 16 years and we intend to stay. If someone decides to evict us let's see what happens on the day,” he told POLITICO.
Top (political) priority
Initially united by nostalgia for the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, Casapound has developed its own brand of hipster fascism focused on contemporary issues such as food poverty and the housing crisis.
Defiantly counterculture, the movement has increasingly struck a chord with young people jaded by years of economic hardship in Italy, and opened more than 100 centers in the past 15 years. During the lockdown, the group distributed food parcels to needy Italian families.
In response to Raggi’s campaign to evict them from their Rome squat, the group has claimed the move would be an attack on the dozens of families who call the building home. About 100 activists gathered outside the palazzo after the mayor announced the eviction.
“There are about 60 inhabitants, including disabled people, elderly people and children,” Di Stefano said, while AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” boomed out of a sound system during the protest. “The problem of housing is not resolved by closing occupations, but by building houses.”
Casapound did not let journalists meet any of the so-called inhabitants. A police investigation found only 16 registered inhabitants, including Casapound's leaders. As the residents seem to have jobs and incomes, their welfare would not be put at risk by the eviction, the judge wrote in the eviction order.
The group’s potential eviction has been a point of political contention for years.
Since coming to power in 2016 in a landslide victory with 67 percent of the vote, Raggi has frequently called for the building to be cleared, stressing the 5Stars’ commitment to the rule of law.
Last year, she visited the building personally to order its embossed lettering removed. Casapound militants have threatened her online and last month prevented her from getting out of her car to visit a food market in the seaside suburb of Ostia, where Casapound has occupied another state-owned building.
Salvini factor
While the 5Stars were in government with the far-right League, Raggi sparred with then-Interior Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini, who insisted evicting Casapound wasn’t a priority, even as he bulldozed migrant camps and cleared buildings occupied by left-wing groups.
Since the 5Stars entered a new coalition with the center-left last September, Raggi has sought to accelerate the fight.
But while some have lauded her “commitment and courage” in trying to resolve the years-long battle, opponents have accused her of overreaching and using the issue to boost her political capital ahead of next year’s mayoral race. (Raggi has admitted she is considering another run, but the 5Stars would have to tweak rules on limits to the number of political mandates first.)
Federico Mollicone, an MP for the extreme-right party Brothers of Italy, accused her of abusing her power “to attack the opposition, while closing her eyes to dangerous left-wing occupations.”
“She is biased,” he told POLITICO. The building — which is one of 20 top-priority buildings marked for eviction in Rome — should not be one of the city’s priorities, as it “is sound and there are families that live there,” he said, adding that Raggi was only taking action “to kick off her election campaign.”
The 5Stars’ allies in government have taken issue with her posturing too. Roberto Gualtieri, the economy minister and a member of the Democratic Party, bristled at Raggi’s attempt to take the credit for the order to seize the building.
“Raggi will be hoping to be able to celebrate the eviction before her mandate as mayor runs out next year.”
In a letter to Raggi, which he published on Twitter, Gualtieri clarified it was the economy ministry — which owns the property — that had “undertaken all the necessary initiatives and actions to return the property to the rule of law,” thanking her “for her interest in an asset of the state.”
For the moment, Casapound can breathe easy. The government has temporarily halted evictions as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and other buildings at risk of structural collapse have greater immediate priority.
Raggi, meanwhile, will be hoping to be able to celebrate the eviction before her mandate as mayor runs out next year.
Losing the capital would be a major knock for the struggling 5Star politician. But with polls suggesting that two-thirds of voters have deserted her since 2016, it looks likely to be a close race in which she'll need support from left-wing voters — who are keen to see the back of Casapound — to push her over the line.
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--- POLITICO.EU (25/06/2020).
www.politico.eu/article/second-liberation-of-rome-far-rig...
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--- Gian Boy, “SCASSAPOUND BRAVA VIRGI', QUESTA VOLTA MI SEI PIACIUTA!” / FLICKR (09 May 2020). www.flickr.com/photos/32423360@N06/47811282911/
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script: Roger Lecureux
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