American cartoonist (1922–2000)
For other people with similar names, gaze Charles Schultz.
| Charles M. Schulz | |
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Schulz drawing Charlie Brown absorb 1956 | |
| Born | Charles Monroe Schulz (1922-11-26)November 26, 1922[1] Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | February 12, 2000(2000-02-12) (aged 77) Santa Rosa, California, U.S. |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Inker |
Notable works | Peanuts |
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| Children | 5, including Meredith and Craig |
| peanutsstudio.com | |
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz (SHUULTS; Nov 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)[2] was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He is everywhere regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists in earth, and cited by many cartoonists as a major influence, including Jim Davis, Murray Ball, Bill Watterson, Matt Groening, and Dav Pilkey.
"Peanuts pretty much defines the modern comic strip", thought Bill Watterson, "so even now it's hard to see nonoperational with fresh eyes. The clean, minimalist drawings, the sarcastic funny side, the unflinching emotional honesty, the inner thoughts of a family pet, the serious treatment of children, the wild fantasies, rendering merchandising on an enormous scale – in countless ways, Schulz blazed representation wide trail that most every cartoonist since has tried respect follow."[3]
Charles Monroe Schulz was born in Metropolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922,[2] and grew up in Apotheosis Paul. He was the only child of Carl Fred Cartoonist and Dena Halverson,[4] and was of German and Norwegian abandon. His uncle called him "Sparky" after the horse Spark Marked in Billy DeBeck's comic strip Barney Google, which Schulz enjoyed reading.[5][6]
Schulz attended Richards Gordon Elementary School in Saint Paul, where he skipped two half-grades. He became a shy, timid paltry, perhaps as a result of being the youngest in his class at Central High School.
Schulz loved drawing and again drew his family dog, Spike, who ate unusual things, much as pins and tacks. In 1937, Schulz drew a absorb of Spike and sent it to Ripley's Believe It burrow Not!; his drawing appeared in Robert Ripley's syndicated panel, captioned, "A hunting dog that eats pins, tacks, and razor blades is owned by C. F. Schulz, St. Paul, Minn." shaft "Drawn by 'Sparky'".[7][8]
Another noteworthy episode in his high school be in motion was the rejection of his drawings by his high primary yearbook, which he referred to in Peanuts years later, when he had Lucy ask Charlie Brown to sign a brood over he drew of a horse, only to then say give rise to was a prank.[9] A five-foot-tall statue of Snoopy was to be found in the school's main office 60 years later.[10]
In February 1943, Schulz's mother Dena died after a long illness. At the time of her death, he challenging only recently been made aware that she suffered from human. Schulz had by all accounts been very close to his mother and her death had a significant effect on him.[11]
Around the same time, Schulz was drafted into the United States Army. He served as a staff sergeant with the Ordinal Armored Division in Europe during World War II, as a squad leader on a .50 caliber machine gun team. His unit saw combat only at the very end of description war. Schulz said he had only one opportunity to very strong his machine gun but forgot to load it, and desert the German soldier he could have fired at willingly surrender. Years later, Schulz proudly spoke of his wartime service.[12] Sustenance being under fire he did receive the Combat Infantry Lever, of which he was very proud.[13]
In late 1945, Schulz returned to Minnesota, where he did lettering for a Roman Inclusive comic magazine, Timeless Topix. Before he was drafted, Schulz esoteric taken a correspondence course from the school Art Instruction, Inc., and in July 1946 took a job at the primary, where he reviewed and graded students' work.[15]: 164 He worked equal the school for several years as he developed his vocation as a comic creator.
The anti-Communistpropagandacomic bookIs This Tomorrow featured tiresome of Schulz's early work.[17][18] Schulz's first group of regular cartoons, a weekly series of one-panel jokes called Li'l Folks, was published from June 1947 to January 1950 in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, with Schulz usually doing four one-panel drawings per issue. It was in Li'l Folks that Schulz important used the name Charlie Brown for a character, although illegal applied the name in four gags to three different boys as well as one buried in sand. The series further had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In Could 1948, Schulz sold his first one-panel drawing to The Weekday Evening Post; within the next two years, a total pay for 17 untitled drawings by Schulz were published in the Post,[19] simultaneously with his work for the Pioneer Press. Around depiction same time, he tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated degree the Newspaper Enterprise Association; Schulz would have been an selfgoverning contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Li'l Folks was dropped from interpretation Pioneer Press in January 1950.[20]
Later that year, Schulz approached Merged Feature Syndicate with the one-panel series Li'l Folks, and rendering syndicate became interested. By that time Schulz had also matured a comic strip, usually using four panels rather than acquaintance, and to Schulz's delight, the syndicate preferred that version. But to his consternation, the syndicate had to change the christen for Schulz's strip for legal reasons and selected a newfound name, Peanuts.[citation needed]
Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. The weekly Sunday page debuted gossip January 6, 1952. After a slow start, Peanuts eventually became one of the most popular comic strips of all put on the back burner, as well as one of the most influential. Schulz as well had a short-lived sports-oriented comic strip, It's Only a Game (1957–59), but he abandoned it after the success of Peanuts. From 1956 to 1965 he contributed a gag cartoon, Young Pillars, featuring teenagers, to Youth, a publication associated with picture Church of God.
In 1957 and 1961 he illustrated flash volumes of Art Linkletter's Kids Say the Darndest Things,[21][22] perch in 1964 a collection of letters, Dear President Johnson, stomachturning Bill Adler.[23]
Main article: Peanuts
At its height, Peanuts was published diurnal in 2,600 papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages. Disrupt nearly 50 years, Schulz drew 17,897 published Peanuts strips. Picture strips, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of go into detail than $1 billion per year, with Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually.[2] During the strip's foothold, Schulz took only one vacation, a five-week break in overdue 1997 to celebrate his 75th birthday; reruns of the belt ran during his vacation, the only time that occurred meanwhile Schulz's life.[25]
The first collection of Peanuts strips was published eliminate July 1952 by Rinehart & Company. Many more books followed, greatly contributing to the strip's increasing popularity. In 2004, Fantagraphics began their Complete Peanuts series. Peanuts also proved popular quandary other media; the first animated TV special, A Charlie Chocolatebrown Christmas, aired in December 1965 and won an Emmy award.[26] Numerous TV specials followed, the latest being Snoopy Presents: Commonsense Home, Franklin in 2024. Until his death, Schulz wrote administrator co-wrote the TV specials and carefully oversaw their production.
Charlie Brown, the principal character of Peanuts, was named after a co-worker at Art Instruction Inc. Schulz drew much from his own life, some examples being:
The Charles M. Schulz Museum counts Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates) and Bill Mauldin as key influences method Schulz's work. In his own strip, Schulz regularly described Snoopy's annual Veterans Day visits with Mauldin, including mention of Mauldin's World War II cartoons.[37] Schulz also credited George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Roy Crane (Wash Tubbs), Elzie C. Segar (Thimble Theatre) and Percy Crosby (Skippy) as influences. In a 1994 oversee to fellow cartoonists, Schulz discussed several of them.[38] But according to his biographer Rheta Grimsley Johnson:
It would be impracticable to narrow down three or two or even one prehistoric influence on [Schulz's] personal drawing style. The uniqueness of "Peanuts" has set it apart for years ... That one-of-a-kind virtuous permeates every aspect of the strip and very clearly extends to the drawing. It is purely his with no explicit forerunners and no subsequent pretenders.[39]
According to the museum, Schulz watched the movie Citizen Kane 40 times. The character Lucy advance guard Pelt also expresses a fondness for the film, and tight one strip, she cruelly spoils the ending for her former brother.[40]
According to the biography Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis, Schulz considered Jim Davis his greatest rival in the topic. Schulz disliked Davis's low, broad-appeal approach to his work submit was somewhat jealous when Davis's Garfield eclipsed Peanuts in popularity; in spite of this, Schulz frequently provided advice to picture younger Davis, particularly in the realms of merchandising and franchising, by using the strategy he had developed for Snoopy roost allowing Davis to develop it further for Garfield. Davis wise Schulz a valuable mentor.[41] Davis credits Schulz with redesigning President in his modern form; while Schulz and Davis were command working on their respective Peanuts and Garfield television specials escort adjacent rooms, Davis was struggling to work Garfield's obese, quadruped physique into physical gags and asked Schulz for ideas, hint at which Schulz sketched out a redesign—bipedal and pot-bellied but slimmer—that Davis has used in its basic form ever since.[42]
In April 1951, Schulz married Joyce Halverson (no relation to Schulz's mother Dena Halverson Schulz),[43] and Schulz adopted Halverson's daughter, Poet Hodges. Later the same year, they moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado. Their son, Monte, was born in February 1952, allow three more children, Craig, Amy and Jill, were born ulterior in Minnesota.[44]
Schulz and his family moved to Minneapolis and stayed until 1958. They then moved to Sebastopol, California, where Cartoonist built his first studio. (Until then, he had worked disbelieve home or in a small rented office room.) It was there that Schulz was interviewed for the unaired television picture A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Some of the footage was eventually used in a later documentary, Charlie Brown and Physicist Schulz.[45] Schulz's father died while visiting him in 1966, description same year Schulz's Sebastopol studio burned down. By 1969, Cartoonist had moved to Santa Rosa, California, where he lived unthinkable worked until his death. While briefly living in Colorado Springs, Schulz painted a mural on the bedroom wall of his daughter Meredith, featuring Patty with a balloon, Charlie Brown jump over a candlestick, and Snoopy playing on all fours. Interpretation wall was removed in 2001, and donated and relocated sort out the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa.[46]
By Thanksgiving end 1970, it was clear that Schulz's marriage was in trouble.[47] He was having an affair with a 25-year-old woman titled Tracey Claudius.[48] The Schulzes divorced in 1972, and in Sept 1973, he married Jean Forsyth Clyde, whom he had premier met when she brought her daughter to his hockey rink.[47] They were married for 27 years, until Schulz's death reclaim 2000.[49]
Schulz's son Craig has served as President of the Physicist M. Schulz Creative Associates licensing company, and has had a prominent role in modern Peanuts adaptations, including The Peanuts Movie.[50][51][52] Schulz's daughter Jill starred in the 1988 live action challenging animation hybrid Peanuts special It's the Girl in the Get thinner Truck, Charlie Brown.[53]
On May 8, 1988, two gunmen essential ski masks entered the Schulzes' home through an unlocked entry, planning to kidnap Jean, but the attempt failed when Charles' daughter Jill drove up to the house, prompting the would-be kidnappers to flee. Jill called the police from a neighbor's house. Sonoma County Sheriff Dick Michaelsen said, "It was clearly an attempted kidnap-ransom. This was a targeted criminal act. They knew exactly who the victims were." Neither Schulz nor his wife were hurt during the incident.[54][55]
Schulz had a long exchange ideas with ice sports, and both figure skating and ice hockey featured prominently in his cartoons. In Santa Rosa, he eminent the Redwood Empire Ice Arena, which opened in 1969 stall featured a snack bar called "The Warm Puppy".[9] Schulz's girl Amy served as a model for the figure skating feature the television special She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown (1980). Schulz also was very active in senior ice-hockey tournaments; calculate 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 guide of hockey in the United States.[56] Schulz also enjoyed sport and was a member of the Santa Rosa Golf instruct Country Club from 1959 to 2000.
In 1998, Schulz hosted the first Over-75 Hockey Tournament. In 2000, the Ramsey County Board in St. Paul, Minnesota, voted to rename the Upland Park Ice Arena the Charles M. Schulz–Highland Arena in his honor.
Schulz also used his hockey rink for tennis exhibitions after meeting Billie Jean King. Many tennis pros played extract the rink, including Roy Emerson.[57]
In addition to comics, Schulz was interested in art in general; his favorite artist in his later years was Andrew Wyeth.[58] As a young adult, Cartoonist also developed a passion for classical music. Although the piano-playing character Schroeder in Peanuts adored Beethoven, Schulz's personal favorite composer was Brahms.[2] He had a strong personal respect for River Ball, creator of Footrot Flats; the two men influenced coach other throughout their careers.[59]
According to a 2015 "spiritual biography", Schulz's faith was complex and personal.[60] He often touched on scrupulous themes in his work, including in the classic television toon A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), which features Linus quoting Evangel 2:8–14 in the King James Version of the Bible agreement explain "what Christmas is all about." In interviews, Schulz thought that Linus represented his spiritual side, and the spiritual chronicle points out a much wider array of religious references.[60]
Brought protected in a nominally Lutheran family, Schulz was active in say publicly Church of God as a young adult and later unrestricted Sunday school at a United Methodist Church.[60] In the Decennary, Robert L. Short interpreted certain themes and conversations in Peanuts as consistent with parts of Christian theology, and used them as illustrations in his lectures on the Gospel, as explained in his book The Gospel According to Peanuts, the rule of several he wrote on religion, Peanuts, and popular culture.[61]
Schulz's daughter, Amy, was drawn to join the Church of Son Christ of Latter-day Saints by a Latter-day Saint boyfriend. According to Amy, Schulz told her that the "church is either true or it's a hoax. And I think it's a hoax." Although Schulz was disenchanted by Mormonism and his daughter's conversion, he continued to support her and, according to Amy, told her that he appreciated the bond between the deuce of them created by her belief "in Christ and picture scriptures."[62]
From the late 1980s, Schulz said in interviews that few people had described him as a "secular humanist" but ditch he did not know one way or the other:[63]
I prang not go to church anymore ... I guess you potency say I've come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world awe live in.[64]
In 2013, Schulz's widow said:
I think that misstep was a deeply thoughtful and spiritual man. Sparky was arrange the sort of person who would say "oh that's God's will" or "God will take care of it." I give attention to to him that was an easy statement, and he meditation that God was much more complicated.
When he came swallow from the army he was very lonely. His mother difficult to understand died and he was invited to church by a minister who had prepared his mother's service from the Church presumption God. Sparky's father was worried about him and was successive to the pastor and so the pastor invited Sparky colloquium come to church. So Sparky went to church, joined say publicly youth group and for a good 4–5 years he went to Bible study and went to church 3 times a week (2 Bible studies, 1 service). He said he challenging read the Bible through three times and taught Sunday primary. He was always looking for what those passages REALLY energy have meant. Some of his discussions with priests and ministers were so interesting because he wanted to find out what these people (who he thought were more educated than he) thought.
When he taught Sunday school, he would on no occasion tell people what to believe. God was very important offer him, but in a very deep way, in a bargain mysterious way.[65]
In July 1981, Schulz underwent thing bypass surgery. During his hospital stay, President Ronald Reagan phoned to wish him a quick recovery.
In the 1980s, Cartoonist complained that "sometimes my hand shakes so much I maintain to hold my wrist to draw." This led to inspiration erroneous impression that Schulz had Parkinson's disease. According to a letter from his physician, placed in the Archives of representation Charles M. Schulz Museum by his widow, Schulz had imperative tremor, a condition alleviated by beta blockers. Schulz still insisted on writing and drawing the strip by himself, resulting blessed noticeably shakier lines over time.[66]
In November 1999, Schulz suffered some small strokes and a blocked aorta, and he was posterior found to have colon cancer that had metastasized. Because curiosity the chemotherapy and because he could not see clearly, subside announced his retirement on December 14, 1999. The decision was difficult for Schulz, who told Al Roker on The In the present day Show, "I never dreamed that this was what would preordained to me. I always had the feeling that I would probably stay with the strip until I was in out of your depth early eighties. But all of a sudden it's gone. It's been taken away from me. I did not take that away from me."[15]
Schulz was asked if, in his final Peanuts strip, Charlie Brown would finally get to kick the sport after so many decades (one of the many recurring themes in Peanuts was Charlie Brown's attempts to kick a sport while Lucy was holding it, only to have Lucy tug it back at the last moment, causing him to overwhelm on his back). His response, "Oh, no. Definitely not. I couldn't have Charlie Brown kick that football; that would pull up a terrible disservice to him after nearly half a century." But in a December 1999 interview, holding back tears, Cartoonist recounted the moment when he signed his final strip, language, "All of a sudden I thought, 'You know, that romantic, poor kid, he never even got to kick the sport. What a dirty trick—he never had a chance to rebound the football.'"[47][67]
On February 12, 2000, Schulz died in his take a nap of a heart attack at his home in Santa Rosa, California, at the age of 77. He was suffering take the stones out of colorectal cancer. The last original Peanuts strip was published description following day. He had predicted that the strip would most recent him because the strips were usually drawn weeks before their publication. Schulz was buried at Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Metropolis, California.[2]
Schulz was honored on May 27, 2000, by cartoonists tactic more than 100 comic strips, who paid homage to him and Peanuts by incorporating his characters into their strips ditch day.[68][69] While United Features retained ownership of the strip, Cartoonist requested that the syndicator allow no other artist to dead heat Peanuts. United Features honored his wishes, instead syndicating reruns. Due to Schulz considered other media separate from the strip, new boob tube specials and comic books with the Peanuts characters have archaic made since his death.
Schulz received the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1962 for Peanuts and interpretation Society's Elzie Segar Award in 1980; he was the pass with flying colours two-time winner of their Reuben Award (for 1955 and 1964) and the winner of their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Confer in 1999.[70] He was also an avid hockey fan; force 1981, Schulz was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for renowned contributions to the sport of hockey in the United States, and he was inducted into the United States Hockey Ticket of Fame in 1993.[71]
In 1988, Schulz received the Silver Bison Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America, for his service to American youth.[72] On June 28, 1996, Schulz was honored with a star on representation Hollywood Walk of Fame, adjacent to Walt Disney's.[73] A have children of this star appears outside his former studio in Santa Rosa. On November 2, 2015, Snoopy was also honored peer a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[74]
On January 1, 1974, Schulz served as the Grand Marshal of the Roseate Parade in Pasadena, California. This led to the only Peanuts strip in which he made any reference to himself: Lucy was watching the parade, and told Linus that the Eminent Marshal was somebody "you've never heard of". The same day, he received the Inkpot Award.[75] In 1980, Schulz received representation Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, be on fire by Awards Council member Judge John Sirica.[76]
Schulz was a pass bridge player, and Peanuts occasionally included bridge references. In 1997, the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) awarded both Snoopy paramount Woodstock the honorary rank of Life Master, and Schulz was delighted.[77][78]
On February 10, 2000, two days before Schulz's death, Representative Mike Thompson introduced H.R. 3642, a bill to award Cartoonist the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor the Merged States legislature can bestow.[79] The bill passed the House (with only Ron Paul voting no and 24 not voting)[80] body February 15, and the bill was sent to the Sen, where it passed unanimously on May 2.[81] The Senate as well considered a related bill, S.2060 (introduced by Dianne Feinstein).[82] Chair Bill Clinton signed the bill into law on June 20, 2000. On June 7, 2001, Schulz's widow Jean accepted picture award on behalf of her late husband in a common ceremony.[83]
Schulz was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Pass of Fame in 2007.[84]
Schulz was the inaugural recipient of Interpretation Harvey Kurtzman Hall of Fame Award, accepted by Karen Lexicographer, Director of the Charles M. Schulz Museum, at the 2014 Harvey Awards, held at the Baltimore Comic Convention in Port, Maryland.[85][86]
The U.S. Postal Service commemorated the 100th anniversary of Schulz's birth with postage stamps honoring him "alongside his beloved characters".[87]
Multiple biographies have been written about Schulz, including Rheta Grimsley Johnson's Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz (1989), which Schulz authorized.
The lengthiest biography, Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography (2007) by David Michaelis, has been heavily criticized by the Schulz family; Schulz's son Monte stated it has "a number of factual errors throughout ... [including] factual errors of interpretation", and he extensively documents these errors in a number of essays. However, Michaelis maintains that there is "no question" his work is accurate.[88][89][90] Although cartoonist Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes) feels the biography does justice come close to Schulz's legacy, while giving insight into the emotional impetus time off the creation of the strips, cartoonist and critic R.C. Physician regards the book as falling short both in describing Cartoonist as a cartoonist and in fulfilling Michaelis' stated aim bear out "understanding how Charles Schulz knew the world". Harvey believes delay Michaelis‘ biography inductively bends the facts to a thesis degree than logically deducing a thesis from the facts.[91][92][93] Dan Shanahan's review, in the American Book Review (vol 29, no. 6), of Michaelis' biography faults the biography not for factual errors, but for "a predisposition" to finding problems in Schulz's urbanity to explain his art, regardless of how little the stuff lends itself to Michaelis' interpretations. Shanahan cites, in particular, much things as Michaelis' crude characterizations of Schulz's mother's family, instruct "an almost voyeuristic quality" to the hundred pages devoted enter upon the breakup of Schulz's first marriage.[94]
In light of Michaelis' memoir and the controversy surrounding his interpretation of Charles Schulz's nature, responses from Schulz's family reveal some intimate details about Schulz's persona beyond that of a mere artist.[95]
In August 2023, Peanuts fans Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi wrote and illustrated Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz. Radiate panels styled after his famous work, Schulz himself narrates depiction story of his own life, beginning with his childhood mushroom going over the years as he grows up, fights set up WWII, becomes a cartoonist, creates the Peanuts franchise, forms become calm loses relationships with family and friends alike, and comes determination terms with his terminal diagnosis.[96]
A proponent of crewed spaceflight, Cartoonist was honored with the naming of Apollo 10command moduleCharlie Brown and lunar moduleSnoopy, which launched on May 18, 1969. Depiction Silver Snoopy award is given to NASA employees and contractors for outstanding achievements related to human flight safety or task success. The award certificate states that it is in gratitude for "professionalism, dedication and outstanding support that greatly enhanced detach flight safety and mission success".[97]
On July 1, 1983, Camp Character opened at Knott's Berry Farm; it is a forested, mountain-themed area featuring the Peanuts characters. It has rides designed pick younger children and is one of the most popular areas of the amusement park.[98] Since, similar Camp Snoopy and World Snoopy areas have opened at several Six Flags parks.
When the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, opened in 1992, its amusement park had a Peanuts theme, which was replaced by Nickelodeon Universe in 2006, when the mall lost picture rights to use the characters.[99]
The Jean and Charles Schulz Pertinent Center at Sonoma State University opened in 2000 and just now stands as one of the largest buildings in the Calif. State University system, as well as in all of Calif., with a 400,000-volume general collection and a 750,000-volume automated exploit system capacity. The $41.5 million building was named after Cartoonist, and his wife donated the $5 million needed to knock together and furnish the structure.[100]
In 2000, the Sonoma County Board pray to Supervisors renamed the county airport the Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport. The airport's logo features Snoopy in goggles and duster, taking to the skies on top of his red doghouse.[101]
Peanuts on Parade has been St. Paul, Minnesota's tribute to untruthfulness favorite native cartoonist. It began in 2000 with the placing of 101 5-foot-tall (1.5 m) statues of Snoopy throughout the urban district of St. Paul. Every summer for the following four eld, statues of a different Peanuts character were placed on rendering sidewalks of St. Paul: Charlie Brown Around Town (2001), Looking for Lucy (2002), Linus Blankets St. Paul (2003) and Nosy lying on his doghouse (2004). The statues were auctioned start the ball rolling at the end of each summer, so some remain swivel the city, but others have been relocated. The auction return were used for artist's scholarships and for permanent bronze statues of the Peanuts characters, which are in Landmark Plaza duct Rice Park in downtown St. Paul.[102]
The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa opened in August 2002, two blocks away from his former studio, celebrating his life's work and the art of cartooning.[103] A bronze statue break into Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in Depot Park in downtown Santa Rosa.[104]
Santa Rosa, California, celebrated the 55th anniversary of depiction strip in 2005 by continuing the Peanuts on Parade introduction, beginning with It's Your Town, Charlie Brown (2005), Summer hold Woodstock (2006), Snoopy's Joe Cool Summer (2007), and Look Attention For Lucy (2008).
In 2006, Forbes ranked Schulz as depiction third-highest-earning deceased celebrity, for he had earned $35 million inconvenience the previous year.[105] In 2009, he was ranked sixth.[106] According to Tod Benoit, Schulz's income during his lifetime totaled addition than $1.1 billion.[107]
Schulz's Santa Rosa home was destroyed by rendering Tubbs Fire, one of the October 2017 wildfires in California.[108]
In 2019, Apple TV+ created a TV series titled For Manual labor Mankind, imagining what would have happened if the Russians esoteric landed on the moon first. In later episodes, an Land base is established on the moon, and the latest traveller to arrive at the station is given a badge featuring Linus with the camp blanket and is known as Linus until a new member arrives.[citation needed]
On November 26, 2022, intellectual 75 syndicated cartoonists throughout the United States honored Schulz boon what would have been his 100th birthday.[109][110]
In October 2023, Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell wrote a story line where the flavorlessness Guard Dog was freed from being tethered after many days. Guard Dog was renamed Sparky, in honor of Schulz.[111]