Research Paper On Charles Schulz

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Charles Monroe Schulz was the creator and cartoonist of the comic strip Peanuts. Charles has won two Peabody awards, two Reuben awards and five Emmy awards on his comic strip. Charles is also a member of the Cartoonist Hall of Fame. When Charles was a boy, he started to draw when he was only six years old. In second grade, he was awarded one of the most outstanding students in his class. When he was older, Charles was so smart that he was allowed to skip two grades in high school. After high school, he took some art classes from the Art Institute.

Charles Monroe Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922. He was the only son of Carl and Dena Halverson Schulz. Charles' dad Carl, owned and worked in his own barber shop …show more content…

Charles was inspired from Milton Caniff and Bill Mauldin. Charles has only took one five week vacation on the cartoon in late 1997. In 1951, Charles moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado were he married Joyce Halverson. Later, his son, Monte, was born in Colorado. His other three children were born in Minnesota except for their adopted daughter, Meredith Hodges. He painted a wall in Colorado for his daughter Meredith. The wall had Patty, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy. The wall was removed in 2001 to be donated to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. Schulz's family stayed in Minneapolis until 1958. Then they moved to Sebastopol,California, where Schulz built his first studio. The studio was where Schulz was interviewed for the unaired television documentary A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Some of the footage was later used in a documentary titled Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz. New TV specials have been produced since Charles' death, but the stories are from past strips. In November 1999, Charles had a stroke. Later after the stroke, He found out that he had colon cancer. He announced his retirement on December 14, 1999. Retiring was very hard for

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