How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)
‘You have to just draw something that you hope is funny’: How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy9 December 2024ShareSaveGreg McKevittShareSaveGetty ImagesCharles M Schulz drew his beloved Peanuts strip for 50 years until his announcement on 14 December 1999 that ill health was forcing him to retire. In History looks at how an unassuming cartoonist built a billion-dollar empire out of the lives of a group of children, a dog and a bird.Charles M Schulz’s timeless creation Charlie Brown may have been as popular as any character in all of literature, but the cartoonist was modest about the scope of his miniature parables. In a 1977 BBC interview, he said: “I’m talking only about the minor everyday problems in life. Leo Tolstoy dealt with the major problems of the world. I’m…
