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...Peanuts characters are good mean little bastards," says Al Capp, "eager to hurt each other. That's why they are so delicious. They wound each other with the greatest enthusiasm. Anybody who sees theology in them is a devil worshiper." Maybe so. But there is no doubt that Schulz, a fervent Bible reader, is aware of original sin. He owns up to making his Peanuts mean because he believes that kids are born mean. But by making his characters cruel on occasion, he has also made them believable. They have a dignity and a formality that is touching; children...
There is, in fact, a lifetime of observation encapsulated in Charlie Brown, although Schulz is at once serious and casual about it all: "Of course, there is lots of meaning. But I can't explain it. What the people see in it, that's what...
Nice Boys Lose. Certainly much of Schulz's own life is in the strip: the harrowing little frustrations, the countless near-misses. "I guess I'm 100% Charlie Brown. Sixty million people read about the dumb things I did when I was little." Born in Minneapolis in 1922, Schulz was dubbed Sparky (after the rambunctious, blanket-draped horse in the strip Barney Google) when he was two days old, and the name stuck. As a boy, Sparky avidly read the comics, sketched illustrations of Sherlock Holmes stories and of his own dog Spike (Snoopy's model...
...Called Li'I Folks, the panel included some forerunners of Peanuts, but it was doomed. After turning it out for nearly a year, Sparky asked the editor for more money. His answer: "No." Then how about giving it a regular spot on the comics page? "No." Then maybe Schulz should stop drawing it altogether? Said the editor: "O.K., let's drop...
...first month of cartooning, Schulz made $90; the second, $500; the third, $1,000; and his pay has gone up ever since. Today he makes $300,000 a year from his strip, plus sales of Peanuts books, pillows, napkins, games and dolls, and the Ford ad for the Falcon...