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Sunday, February 01, 2004Peanuts and Long Stories
From the Knowlege News E-newsletter:
Q. What is the longest story ever told by one human being? A. Charles Schulz's story of Peanuts. Schulz, the son of a Minnesota barber, gave Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of the Peanuts gang life for almost half a century, from October 1950 to February 2000. According to Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University, that makes his saga arguably the longest story ever told by one person. The Peanuts comic strip, which appeared in 75 countries, 2,600 papers, and 21 languages every day, made Charles Schulz very rich. By some estimates, Mr. Schulz earned about $30 million to $40 million annually. Yet he refused to stop drawing. He announced his retirement only after being diagnosed with colon cancer, and even then, he never did retire. His "goodbye" Sunday strip appeared on February 13, 2000, the morning after he died in his sleep. * Q. What did Mr. Schulz think of the name Peanuts? A. He hated it. His publishers forced it on him after legal tangles with the L'il Abner folks required abandoning the strip's original name: L'il Folks. Schulz once said, "I was very upset with the title, and still am." When I was a kid I had hard cover collections of most of the older Peanuts strips. I don't know what happened to them which makes me sad. Is there a kid that grew up in the 70's or 80's that doesn't remember the Charlie Brown holiday speacils? Snoopy and the gang are as much cultural icons as anything else Americana but more importantly Shultz has left us a legacy of stories that will endure forever. Everyone needs to know when the doctor is in and that my friends is timeless...:) 
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