A Boy Named Charlie Brown---I found this documentary the other day and wanted to share it. I've always loved Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the Peanuts comic strip. I have a Peanuts book collection, that I've kept for years. I learned to read and draw from the Peanuts comic strip.
Hi Peeps,
ReplyDeleteI never made the connection of the cartoon images you've drawn depicting you in your zines to those of Shultz's Peanut charachters, but I see it now. You would have fit right in.
I saw the last interview done of Charles Shultz on the Today show. He was there with his daughter, who had convinced him it was time to stop doing his strip. It was obvious he did not want to end it, but was deferring to her judgement, very reluctantly, even in the moment of that interview. She simply said, "it was time..."
I felt bad for him, as it was painfully obvious he was not on board with the decision. I saw his daughter as a villan in that interview. I felt like that should have been his choice to make alone, on his own. He showed no signs of being not sound of mind.
I recall that interview was on a Friday, and two days later, his obituary appeared in the same Sunday paper as the last Peanuts comic strip. I guess he could not bear to go on without his beloved charachters (friends).
I wonder if his daughter felt bad about it or if it even phased her?
I too loved and looked forward to the After School Specials as a kid. They were part of me trying to put the pieces together.
Chelle
hi Chelle,
DeleteHey glad you can see Schult'z influence on my comics. Notice how I draw grass and shoes. :P Charles Schultz had an interesting life, I read a biography of him. The first wife seemed awful like a narcissist always demanding. The guy who wrote the biography says Lucy was a stand in for his first wife and Schultz was Schroeder at the piano being constant hounded. LOL
I hope the daughter wasn't mean to him, maybe she worried with age, he would flub up the strip or was getting sick from all the stress. Hopefully she didn't take after her mother in personality. Schultz's second wife was a lot nicer to him. Hey if you ever see a video of that interview anywhere please send it to me. I think he was attached to his comic strip and it's characters. He died the day his last comic came out so that was sad too. He probably felt he could not go on. I liked After School Specials too, wish they still had shows like that for kids, they used to deal with social and life problems too.
Thanks for your post Chelle. I still draw the Peep comic book/journals though the one over last year is a little dark and a lot of angst filled writing. There's comics of Peep running for the wilderness and trying to talk Alex into dropping out of society. I miss Charles Schultz and Peanuts. That was a sad day and he died too young.