My Life with Charlie Brown

✍ Scribed by Charles M. Schulz

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time.Schulz's autobiographical articles, book introductions, magazine pieces, lectures, and commentary elucidate his life and his art, and clarify themes of modern life, philosophy, and religion that are interwoven into his beloved, groundbreaking comic strip. Edited and with an introduction by comics scholar M. Thomas Inge, this volume will serve as the touchstone for Schulz's thoughts and convictions and as a wide-ranging, unique autobiography in the absence of a traditional, extended memoir.Inge and the Schulz estate have chosen a number of illustrations to include. With the approval and cooperation of the Schulz family, Inge draws on the cartoonist's entire archives, papers, and correspondence to allow Schulz full voice to speak his mind. The project includes his comics criticism, his introductions to Peanuts volumes, his essays about philanthropy, his commentary on Christianity, his newspaper articles about the creation of his characters, and more. My Life with Charlie Brown will reveal new dimensions of this legendary cartoonist.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Chronology......Page 16
My Life......Page 24
My Life and Art with Charlie Brown and Others......Page 26
Peanuts as Profession of Faith......Page 43
Commencement Address at Saint Mary’s College......Page 49
Charles Schulz and Peanuts......Page 55
The Christmas That Almost Got Stolen......Page 60
Snoopy’s Senior World Hockey Tournament......Page 64
I’ll Be Back in Time for Lunch......Page 69
The Fan: Baseball Is Life, I’m Afraid......Page 74
Comic Inspiration......Page 80
Don’t Grow Up......Page 83
My Shot: Good Grief!......Page 90
A Morning Routine......Page 92
Questions about Reading That Children Frequently Ask......Page 94
My Profession......Page 98
Developing a Comic Strip......Page 100
Peanuts—How It All Began......Page 108
Creativity......Page 112
A Career in Cartooning......Page 127
Why 100 Million of Us (GASP!) Read the Comics......Page 134
Happiness Is a Lot of Assignments......Page 139
On Staying Power......Page 146
Address to the National Cartoonists Society Convention......Page 149
Pleasures of the Chalk-Talk......Page 164
My Art......Page 168
The Theme of Peanuts......Page 170
But a Comic Strip Has to Grow......Page 187
What Do You Do with a Dog That Doesn’t Talk?......Page 194
Appendix......Page 202
Pale Horse, Pale Rider......Page 204
A Poem for Jeannie......Page 210
Index......Page 212