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A Cartoonist Enters the Scene
Charles Schulz was born on November 26, 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born to Dena and Carl Schulz. Dena was a waitress, and Carl was a barber. Charles lived outside the Twin Cities and Needles California, after the onset of the Great depression. Schulz knew at an early age he wanted to be a cartoonist. He sat down and read the funnies every week with his dad. Shortly after he was drafted in the war his mom passed away with cervical cancer.
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First Fame
The Peanuts crew made it's first debut in newspapers on October 2, 1950. The very first comic strip featured a boy, girl and Charlie Brown. The boy at first seems to want to be Charlie's friend, but as Charlie leaves, he describes his hate for this lovable hero.
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Charlie Brown Enters the Scene
Charlie Brown is a resemblence of Charles Schulz. He is the lovable loser who can never kick a football. Even though he manages the worst baseball team in the world, he never gives up. He is in love with the little red head girl, but cannot get the courage to go talk to her. Even though he gets grief from his friends, gets his kite stuck in a tree, and even Snoopy, he still remains a hero in many American hearts.
Did you know: Charlie Brown and Charles Schul's fathers were barbers.
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Snoopy Enters the Scene
Snoopy is a wildly imaginitive dog who resembles Charles Schulz's family dog. He is a very confident beagle who always likes to be the WWI flying ace, and fight against the red baron. He is the dog we'd all like to be. While sitting on top of his dog house he ponders the meaning of life as he tortures the cat next door, writes a novel, and travels to the moon.
Did you know: Snoopy reads war and peace at the rate of one word a day.
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Charles Schulz gets Married
Charles married the woman of his dreams. This was the girl who inspired the little red head girl, charlie brown's love interest. It paved the way for Charles's marriage proposal. Even though Charlie Brown couldn't muster up the courage to talk to the girl, Charles eventually got enough courage to ask for her hand in marriage.
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Schroeder Enters the Scene
Schroeder is a musical genious who always has his head in a piano playing classical music. The only time he is separated from his musical piano is when he is at the baseball games. The rest of his time is spent fending off Lucy who is always making unwanted advances.
Did you know: Charles chose Beethoven as the music because it started with the letter "B" and he thought words like beagle, and brown, sounded funny.
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Lucy Enters the Scene
Known as crabby and bossy pants of the peanuts gang. Lucy can be found giving advice at her five cent psychiatrist’s booth, even though her advice is not very credible. She is also found yanking away Linus's blanket and humiliating Charlie Brown. Lucy's only weakness is her love for Schroeder the piano man.
Did you know: Lucy speaks out for womens' rights and has high intentions of becoming president or queen.
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Linus Enters the Scene
Linus is known for his blanket, and always having a kind word to say to everyone, even his bossy sister Lucy. He is many times the voice of the neighborhood even though he firmily believes in the great pumpkin. He suffers more than most people when people, or pumpkins, let him down.
Did you know: Linus wore glasses for a short time. Snoopy constantly stole them to torture him.
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Pigpen Enters the Scene
Pigpen is completely happy in his own dusty skin and his own personal dust storm. He doens't care what anyone else thinks he is clearly very comfortable with himself. He carries himself with dignity despite his outward appearence.
Did you know: Charlie Brown is the only one who continually accepts Pigpen as a friend despite all of the dirt.
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Sally Brown Enters the Scene
Sally is Charlie Browns younger sister. She believes the whole world owes her an explination. "Why does she have to go to school?" "Why doesn't her sweet Linus love her?" Sally is always on a hunt for answers and she hardly ever gets them answered. She came up with a whole new philosophy. "Who Cares?"
Did you know: For six months Sally expirienced a lazy eye and had to wear an eye patch.
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Peppermint Patty Enters the Scene
Peppermint Patty is a natural athlete and leader. She is up for any challenge except studying. She hates going to school and is a very tough girl. She also has her soft side such as her love for Charlie "Chuck" Brown. She is a very good athlete but for her the life part is hard.
Did you know: Peppermint Patty's real name is Patricia Reichardt.
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Woodstock Enters the Scene
Woodstock is Snoopy's sidekick who always tries to do his best. He flutters around and sometimes sputters, but in the end he has a great friend in Snoopy. He is a faithful companion to the flying ace and secretary to the head beagle. He is a fun root beer drinking partner in crime. He chirps in a language only snoopy can understand. He is never far from the dog house.
Did you know: Woodstock made his first appearence in 1967 but was officially named in 1970 after a summer festival.
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Franklin Enters the Scene
Franklin is Charlie Brown's loyal friend who is quiet but confident. He never has an unkind word about Charlie. At school he sits in front of Peppermint patty which makes his school days much more worse. He is always hanging around Charlie Brown's house and always lends a hand to him whenever he needs it.
Did you know: Franklin goes to school with Peppermint Patty and Marcie, but visits Charlie Brown in a nearby neighborhood.
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Marcie Enters the Scene
Marcie is smart and loyal friend to Peppermint Patty. She is definately the smart one in the duo. And even though she doesn't know the difference between hockey and baseball, she is terrific with friendship. She is very good friends with Charlie Brown "Charles." She also calls Peppermint Patty "sir."
Did you know: Marcie's name first appeared in 1971, even though a girl who resembled her exactly went to the same camp as Peppermint Patty in 1968.
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Charles Schulz Exits the Scene
The night before his final penuts cartoon was debuted he died in his sleep. At the time the Peanuts cartoons were being read by readers in twenty one languages in over 2,600 papers in seventy five countries. Schulz produced over 18,000 comic strips in his 50 years of work. He had many awards and now has a museum and reaserch center displaying his origional artwork, letters, photographs, and other memorabilia.
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