Word: schulz
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DIED. CHARLES SCHULZ, 77, creator of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the gang of little losers at Peanuts, perhaps the world's most beloved cartoon; of colon cancer on the eve of the publication of the final Sunday strip; in San Francisco. At the news of his retirement in December, TIME's James Poniewozik wrote, "His lifework is a reminder that self-awareness and a refined sense of irony do not mean affectlessness, that being a loser does not mean being defeated...
...Charles Schulz's last Charlie Brown strip, which featured the whole gang in their most well-known poses (i.e. Charlie with a football, Linus with his blankey), ran the day before he died of colon cancer. He has been missed...
...just like that, he was gone. Only a few months after announcing he was shutting down his five-decade-old comic, just hours before that newspaper containing his farewell Sunday strip arrived at the door of his Santa Rosa, Calif., home - Charles Schulz died in his sleep Saturday evening. "Peanuts," he had long said, would end with him, and he was ready; having been diagnosed with colon cancer just months earlier, he was wrapping things up. The last daily "Peanuts" comic strip ran January 3; Sunday's was the final big weekend act, and was a farewell note...
...thing that stands out, of course, the staggering, brilliant feat of his life, was this consistency - creating a funny, interesting set of characters that we were still glad to see next to our cornflakes, even after 50 years. All of Schulz's would-be successors flamed out. Berke Breathed was brilliant in "Bloom County" for a while, then retreated from the strip after an accident and could never recapture the magic with his next try, "Outland." "Calvin and Hobbes," surely the postmodern offspring of Lucy and Charlie Brown, delighted (Schulz himself was a fan) until Bill Waterson...
...there was always Schulz. "Peanuts" was his life, and we followed its arc in the lines he drew for the strip: Tentative at first, in "Li'l Folks," the proto-"Peanuts" comic started for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947; bold, strong and in control it its 1960s heyday (even Linus lookedsecure); ragged in its final years. Somehow, even though we all knew what to expect - and what an ultimate betrayal that would have been, for Lucy to actually let Charlie Brown kick that football - we were always interested in the whole neurotic gang, and now that Charles Schulz...