SNOOPY AND CHARLIE

BROWN

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Charles Monroe Schulz was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His fascination with comics
came at an early age while reading the Sunday comics from 4 different newspapers every
week. With the support of his parents, he enrolled in a comic drawing correspondence
course. His career as a cartoonist was interrupted when in 1943 he was recruited and
sent to Europe.

For a time, Schulz developed his own vision of the cartoon into a series of cartoons and
sold them to the Saint Paul Pioneer Press. In 1948, the Saturday Evening Post published
some of his work and in 1950 the United Features Syndicate bought his “Li'l Folks” and
distributed it under the title “Peanuts.” Thus, on October 2 of that same year, Peanuts
debuted in 7 different newspapers.

In 1948, Schulz attempted to market Li'l Folks at the Newspaper Enterprise Association.
The following year, Schulz approached United Features Syndicate with his best Li'l Folks
comic strips, managing to market his work, so Peanuts - literally meaning "Peanuts", but
figuratively used to mean "Little things" "- made its first appearance on October 2, 1950.
It would eventually become one of the most popular comics of all time. He also published a
strip about sports, called It's Only a Game, although only between 1957 and 1959, as he
abandoned his creation due to the time required by Peanuts.

His characters were very successful among adults and children, in the case of the former
due to the simplicity of the drawings and characters, and in the case of the latter due to
the message that each of the characters hid behind them. He was an innovator because
he introduced everyday life into the world of comics, dominated until then by action, the
effort to achieve realistic drawings and characters like the creations of the Disney

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factory. Another notable feature is that adults never appear in his comics: the world of
Charlie Brown, Snoopy and their gang belongs only to childhood.

He went from being a shy child for whom nothing went well to becoming the cartoonist
who most tenderly managed to show the hidden side of the American dream.

For Schulz, in his own words, comics were a minor art form, however it was he himself
who demonstrated like few others its enormous possibilities. During the 1970s and 1980s
he earned a considerable amount of money, which he used in part to help those in need.

In November 1999, Schulz suffered a heart attack, and it was later discovered that he
had colorectal cancer, which had triggered a metastasis, expanding to the stomach. As a
result of chemotherapy, in addition to the fact that he could no longer read or see
clearly, Schulz announced his retirement on December 14, 1999, at the age of 77.

Schulz died of an acute myocardial infarction at 9:45 p.m. on February 12, 2000, in Santa
Rosa. He was buried in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Sebastopol. His last original comic strip
was released on February 13, 2000.

The day after his death his last comic strip was published. Schulz left behind almost
fifty years of uninterrupted daily work, creating a daily comic strip, without an assistant.

In 2000, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors in California decided to rename the
former Sonoma County Airport Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County Airport (in Spanish:
Aeropuerto Charles M. Schulz - Sonoma County). The airport's logo included Snoopy
wearing glasses and a scarf, towering over the roof of his red house.

The Charles M. Museum Schulz was opened on August 17, 2002.

Proof of the success of his work is the cover of Time and Life that his characters
starred in; that NASA named the Apollo X command module Charlie Brown and the lunar
module Snoopy; that when Ronald Reagan was governor of California, he declared May 25
as Charles Schulz Day; or that the French art minister Jack Lang named him a Knight of
the Order of Arts and Letters.

Throughout his life he drew 17,000 comic strips.

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CARLITOS is Snoopy's owner, his relationship with him is very special, as he

participates in his life as one of his friends. He is a shy and sometimes
insecure boy, but at the same time he is tender and has a big heart. One
of his biggest challenges is to make his baseball team win sometime.

Snoopy is a lawyer by profession, never his "work" (as a dog, of course). His
main hobby, in his many free moments, is playing golf, although he is also
part of his owner's baseball team. It is also not unusual to see him
bowling or chatting quietly with his great friend Emilio (little bird). In
short, it is the dog that every person would like to have as a best
"friend". Ah! and it's not difficult either trying to write a novel or
whatever occurs to him or his main critic Lucy.
SALLY is Carlitos' sister. She is a girl with clear ideas, sincere (sometimes
too much, to the misfortune of her friends) and practical. His great
occupation is school, which he doesn't really like to go to. She watches a
lot of TV lying in her easy chair and is quite protestant. His little heart is
Linus.

LINUS is one of the most focused and calm of the group. Condemned to
having his sister (Lucy) take away his place in front of the television. He
seems to be an intelligent and sensitive child. He has a little brother in
love with him named Bis.

LUCY is Linus and Bis' sister. Harsh literary criticism of Snoopy. She plays
on Carlitos' baseball team like the rest of her friends, although quite
poorly, which she doesn't seem to mind. Two of her favorite hobbies are,
on the one hand, telling the boy at the piano how much she loves him and
the things they will do when they are married, while the other ignores or
rejects her without breaking a sweat, and on the other hand, fighting
with her

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brother Linus or at least try.

BROWN MARCIA is the nerd of the group. Inseparable friend of Peppermint Patty,
with whom she goes everywhere and whom she calls "sir." He is very shy,
but in the end he dared to tell his great love, Carlitos, that he loved him.

PEPPERMINT PATTY is a girl even though she is always dressed like a boy, it is
very difficult to see her in a little suit and with her hair done. As for
school, she is almost the opposite of her best friend Marcia, whom she
drives crazy with her questions and statements, since she has her own
ideas, very clear by the way, although most of them wrong.

BIS little brother of Marcia and Linus. Little is known about him, except
that his brothers teach him about the things of life and he is condemned
to travel on the back seat of the bicycle with his mother when the good
weather arrives, which he does not like at all. He loves his blanket.

EMILIO is Snoopy's little bird friend, with whom they have long
conversations, go on excursions and they do a lot of things together.

SCHROEDER is a piano virtuoso. He is not at all interested in what Lucy tells

him about her love for him. And he also plays baseball on Carlitos' team.

SPIKE is Snoopy's reclusive brother, a real estate agent. He lives in the

desert with his cactus friends, with whom he holds dances, has a club,
holds meetings, etc...

MARBLES almost forgotten brother of Snoopy, more of a philosopher and

who does not understand his brother Snoopy's fantasies. In addition to
everything, he wears sneakers.

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PEANUTS THIS IS MY WHEN YOU ARE DEPRESSED

"DEPRESSED THAT POSTURE IS VERY
POSTURE " IMPORTANT. . .

THE WORST THING YOU CAN DO IS If YOU WANT BEING PEPRIMED to TURN
STAND UP AND RAISE YOUR OUT WELL , YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR
CHEESE/BECAUSE HEAD LIKE THIS.
YOU START TO FEEL BETTER.

If you want more…

http://www.publispain.com/snoopy/
http://www.pequelandia.org/snoopy/
http://www.pequelandia.org/snoopy/tiras/index1.htm

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