38 Facts About Charles Schulz

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts .

Charles Schulz is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists in History, and cited by many cartoonists as a major influence, including Jim Davis, Bill Watterson, Matt Groening, and Dav Pilkey.

Charles Schulz was the only child of Carl Schulz and Dena Halverson, and was of German and Norwegian descent.

Charles Schulz's uncle called him "Sparky" after the horse Spark Plug in Billy DeBeck's comic strip, Barney Google, which Schulz enjoyed reading.

Charles Schulz loved drawing and sometimes drew his family dog, Spike, who ate unusual things, such as pins and tacks.

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Charles Schulz attended Richards Gordon Elementary School in Saint Paul, where he skipped two half-grades.

Charles Schulz became a shy, timid teenager, perhaps as a result of being the youngest in his class at Central High School.

Charles Schulz had by all accounts been very close to his mother and her death had a significant effect on him.

Charles Schulz said he had only one opportunity to fire his machine gun but forgot to load it, and that the German soldier he could have fired at willingly surrendered.

Charles Schulz did lettering for a Roman Catholic comic magazine, Timeless Topix, and in July 1946 took a job at Art Instruction, Inc, where he reviewed and graded students' work.

Charles Schulz had taken a correspondence course from the school before he was drafted.

Charles Schulz worked at the school for several years as he developed his career as a comic creator.

In May 1948, Charles Schulz sold his first one-panel drawing to The Saturday Evening Post; within the next two years, a total of 17 untitled drawings by Charles Schulz were published in the Post, simultaneously with his work for the Pioneer Press.

Around the same time, he tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association; Charles Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through.

Later that year, Charles Schulz approached United Feature Syndicate with the one-panel series Li'l Folks, and the syndicate became interested.

Charles Schulz had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip, It's Only a Game, but he abandoned it after the success of Peanuts.

The strips, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of more than $1 billion per year, with Charles Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually.

Until his death, Charles Schulz wrote or co-wrote the TV specials and carefully oversaw their production.

Charles Schulz's father died while visiting him in 1966, the same year Charles Schulz's Sebastopol studio burned down.

Charles Schulz was having an affair with a 25-year-old woman named Tracey Claudius.

Charles Schulz had a long association with ice sports, and both figure skating and ice hockey featured prominently in his cartoons.

Charles Schulz was very active in senior ice-hockey tournaments; in 1975, he formed Snoopy's Senior World Hockey Tournament at his Redwood Empire Ice Arena, and in 1981, he was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding service to the sport of hockey in the United States.

Charles Schulz enjoyed golf and was a member of the Santa Rosa Golf and Country Club from 1959 to 2000.

Charles Schulz used his hockey rink for tennis exhibitions after meeting Billie Jean King.

Charles Schulz's mother had died and he was invited to church by a pastor who had prepared his mother's service from the Church of God.

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Charles Schulz said he had read the Bible through three times and taught Sunday school.

Charles Schulz was always looking for what those passages REALLY might have meant.

Charles Schulz still insisted on writing and drawing the strip by himself, resulting in noticeably shakier lines over time.

In November 1999, Charles Schulz suffered several small strokes and a blocked aorta, and he was later found to have colon cancer that had metastasized.

Charles Schulz was asked if, in his final Peanuts strip, Charlie Brown would finally get to kick the football after so many decades .

Charles Schulz had predicted that the strip would outlive him because the strips were usually drawn weeks before their publication.

Charles Schulz was buried at Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Sebastopol, California.

Charles Schulz received the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1962 for Peanuts, the Society's Elzie Segar Award in 1980, and was the first two-time winner of their Reuben Award for 1955 and 1964, and their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999.

Charles Schulz was an avid hockey fan; in 1981, Schulz was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding contributions to the sport of hockey in the United States, and he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993.

Charles Schulz is a recipient of the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America, for his service to American youth.

In 1980, Charles Schulz received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Judge John Sirica.

Charles Schulz was a keen bridge player, and Peanuts occasionally included bridge references.

Charles Schulz was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2007.