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...Charlie Brown Christmas stars all the familiar Charles Schulz cartoon characters, faithfully animated by ex-Disney Artist Bill Melendez. The par able, too, is pure Schulz. Christmas is coming, but "good oF wishy-washy" Charlie Brown doesn't "feel the way I'm supposed to feel." "Look, Charlie Brown, let's face it," explains Lucy...
...Some of Schulz's early readers, who formed an almost worshiping cult, contend that Peanuts has gone downhill since Schulz went commercial. But if anything, the strip has improved over the years; both its drawing and satire have sharpened. While Lucy's face is a little fleshier and meaner, Charlie's head is no longer a perfect circle: he is less cute and more pathetic...
...Some of the more spirited cartoonists buck, kick and squirm," says a syndicate editor, and Charles Schulz bucks as much as any. He complained about his second strip when United Feature sketched in a black eye Patty gave Charlie. Recently, United objected to the Peanuts sequence in which Linus' blanket attacks the other Peanuts. "That's monster stuff," complained United Feature's President Laurence Rutman, who prevailed on Schulz to abandon eight strips. "It's not the real you." In retaliation, Schulz bought a baby blanket, drew a monster on it saying "Boo!" and sent...
...Schulz fights for his strip with vehemence because he puts so much of himself into Peanuts' world. So vivid have his strip characters become to him that he talks of them as if they were members of the household. (They are as real to readers, who have sent blankets to Linus, valentines to Charlie, and a variety of clothes to Snoopy.) The psychiatry Schulz includes in Peanuts comes from his own intuition; he seldom reads any weighty tomes. "I try to remember that basically cartooning is drawing funny pictures. So I just draw some kind of wild action...
...Schulz arranges his own life in the interests of his strip. He can rarely be enticed to leave home for fear of losing touch with what he calls the "ordinary way of life." What the ordinary way of life means for Schulz is a 28-acre estate in Sebastopol, north of San Francisco, where he and Joyce and their five children live in uncommon luxury. Artificial waterfall, tennis court, riding ring, park, baseball diamond, barbecue pit, pool, all testify to Sparky's determination to give his children everything he lacked as a boy. Keeping the family company are five...