I was particularly touched by this comment:
"""Knowing that his miseries fueled his work, he resisted help or
change, apparently preferring professional success over personal
happiness."""
--
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://jace.seacrow.com/
On 20-Oct-07, at 11:55 PM, Abhishek Hazra wrote:
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119214690326956694.html
. . .
The comic strip "Peanuts" was more than a decade old when I started
reading it as a kid in the mid-1960s. At that time, "Peanuts" was
becoming a force of pop culture, with best-selling books and a newly
burgeoning merchandising empire of plastic dolls, sweatshirts,
calendars and television specials.
. . .
While growing up, I collected the annual "Peanuts" books and used them
as a personal cartooning course, copying the drawings with the idea of
someday becoming the next Charles Schulz.
. . .
At that time, most of the strip went over my head, and I certainly had
no understanding of how revolutionary "Peanuts" was or how it was
changing the comics. "Peanuts" pretty much defines the modern comic
strip, so even now it's hard to see it with fresh eyes.
. . .
in countless ways, Schulz blazed the wide trail that most every
cartoonist since has tried to follow. David Michaelis's biography,
"Schulz and Peanuts," is an earnest and penetrating look at the man
behind this comic-strip phenomenon. With new access to Schulz's
personal files, professional archives and family, Mr. Michaelis
presents the fullest picture we have yet of the cartoonist's life and
personality.
