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Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Peanuts, featuring the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
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culture · American cartoonist (1922–2000) · cartoonist · comics artist · artist · screenwriter · ice hockey player · journalist · illustrator · writer · postage stamp designer · comics writer · also Charles M. Schulz, Charles Monroe Schulz, Sparky Schulz, Sparky, Charles Schulz, Schulz
Born 26 November 1922 · Died 12 February 2000 · Q298920
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
AOL: 'Peanuts' Turns 75! Inside the Life of Comic Strip Creator Charles M. Schulz
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Charles M. Schulz Museum, others celebrate ‘Peanuts’ 75th anniversary
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2024· 1 entry
Santa Rosa Press Democrat: Charles M. Schulz Museum exhibit honors Snoopy and his Beagle Scouts
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2022· 1 entry
Over 75 American syndicated cartoonists honored Schulz on what would have been his 100th birthday
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2015· 3 entries
Snoopy was also honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Awarded California Hall of Fame (2015).
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According to a 2015 "spiritual biography", Schulz's faith was complex and personal.
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Forbes ranked Schulz as the third-highest-earning deceased celebrity, for he had earned $35 million in the previous year
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2005· 1 entry
By continuing the Peanuts on Parade tradition, beginning with It's Your Town, Charlie Brown (2005), Summer of Woodstock (2006), Snoopy's Joe Cool Summer (2007), and Look Out For Lucy (2008)
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2004· 1 entry
Fantagraphics began their Complete Peanuts series
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2001· 2 entries
Schulz's widow Jean accepted the award on behalf of her late husband in a public ceremony
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And donated and relocated to the Charles M
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2000· 7 entries
Won Congressional Gold Medal (2000).
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Awarded Harvey Awards (2000).
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Died 2000-02-12.
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Two days before Schulz's death, Congressman Mike Thompson introduced H
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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.”
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The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors renamed the county airport the Charles M
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And now stands as one of the largest buildings in the California State University system, as well as in all of California, with a 400,000-volume general collection and a 750,000-volume automated retrieval system capacity
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1998· 1 entry
Schulz hosted the first Over-75 Hockey Tournament
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Will Eisner Hall of Fame (1997).
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The American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) awarded both Snoopy and Woodstock the honorary rank of Life Master
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1996· 2 entries
Schulz received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, adjacent to Walt Disney's
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Awarded star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded United States Hockey Hall of Fame (1993).
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1992· 1 entry
Its amusement park had a Peanuts theme and was called Camp Snoopy, which was replaced by Nickelodeon Universe in 2006, when the mall lost the rights to use the characters
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1990).
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1988· 2 entries
Two gunmen in ski masks entered Schulz's home through an unlocked door, planning to kidnap Jean, but the attempt failed when Schulz's daughter Jill drove up to the house, prompting the would-be kidnappers to flee
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The Boy Scouts of America, a youth organization, honored Schulz with its Silver Buffalo Award
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1983· 2 entries
Camp Snoopy opened at Knott's Berry Farm; it is a forested, mountain-themed area featuring the Peanuts characters
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And the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1996, and was posthumously inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2007
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1981· 2 entries
Won Lester Patrick Trophy (1981).
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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
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1980· 1 entry
Schulz received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by Awards Council member Judge John Sirica
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1975· 1 entry
Formed Snoopy's Senior World Hockey Tournament at his Redwood Empire Ice Arena, and in 1981, he was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to the sport of hockey in the United States
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1974· 2 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (1974).
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Schulz served as the Grand Marshal of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California
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1969· 1 entry
And featured a snack bar called "The Warm Puppy Café"
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Alley Award (1967).
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Awarded Adamson Awards (1967).
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1966· 3 entries
A Charlie Brown Christmas received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program
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The same year Schulz's Sebastopol studio burned down
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Schulz's father died while visiting him in 1966, the same year Schulz's Sebastopol studio burned down.
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1965· 3 entries
Earned Silver Reuben Award (1965).
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He often touched on religious themes in his work, including in the classic television cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features Linus quoting Luke 2 to explain "what Christmas is all about." Schulz said that Linus represented his spiritual side, and the spiritual biography points out a much wider array of religious references.
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Helped write several animated television specials and four animated films based on his characters
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1964· 2 entries
Awarded Reuben Award (1964).
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Illustrated a collection of letters, Dear President Johnson, by Bill Adler
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1962· 2 entries
Schulz published a book, Happiness is a Warm Puppy, which spent 42 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list
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For Peanuts and the Society's Elzie Segar Award in 1980; he was the first two-time winner of their Reuben Award (for 1955 and 1964) and the winner of their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999
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1958· 1 entry
Schulz and his family moved to Minneapolis and stayed until 1958.
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1957· 1 entry
And 1961, Schulz illustrated two volumes of Art Linkletter's Kids Say the Darndest Things
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1955· 1 entry
Awarded Reuben Award (1955).
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1950· 1 entry
Schulz redeveloped Li'l Folks as a four-panel comic strip and submitted it to United Features Syndicate, who renamed it Peanuts and began publishing that October
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1943· 1 entry
And served in the United States Army during the final years of World War II
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1937· 1 entry
Schulz drew a picture of Spike and sent it to Ripley's Believe It or Not
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1922· 3 entries
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in nearby Saint Paul
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Born 1922-11-26.
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“a number of factual errors throughout ... [including] factual errors of interpretation”
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