Ethan Pepper Children Meredith Hodges Daughter Monte Schulz

Ethan Pepper Children: Meredith Hodges (Daughter) · Monte Schulz (Son) · Craig Schulz (Son) · Jill Schulz (Daughter) · Amy Schulz (Daughter) Parents: Carl Schulz (Father) · Dena Halverson (Mother)

Significant Productions Best known for the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others). Character Creation Charles was always fascinated with strips like Skippy, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye. In his deepest desires, he always knew he wanted to be a cartoonist Character Creation Schulz's first group of regular cartoons, a weekly series of one-panel jokes entitled 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 first used the name Charlie Brown for a character, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys as well as one buried in sand. Legacy or influences Schulz’s understated genius lay in his ability to keep his well-known and comfortable characters fresh enough to attract new readers while keeping his current audience coming back for more. His humour was at times observational, sarcastic, nostalgic, silly, and with occasional flights of fancy and suspension of reality thrown in from time to time. He has been awarded with the highest honour's from his fellow cartoonists, received Gemmy Awards for his animated specials, been recognized and lauded by the U. S. and foreign governments, had NASA spacecraft named after his characters, and inspired a concert performance at Carnegie Hall.

Historical content • Schulz received the National Cartoonists Society's Humour Comic Strip Award in 1962 for Peanuts, the Society's Elzie Segar Award in 1980, and was also the first two-time winner of their Reuben Award for 1955 and 1964, and their Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. • Schulz died in his sleep at home on February 12, 2000 at around 9: 45 pm, from colon cancer. • On Sunday, May 8, 1988, two gunmen wearing ski masks entered the cartoonist's home through an unlocked door, planning to kidnap Jean Schulz, but the attempt failed when Schulz's daughter Jill drove up to the house, prompting the would-be kidnappers to flee. • At its height, Peanuts was published daily in 2, 600 papers in 75 countries, in 21 languages. Over the nearly 50 years that Peanuts was published, Schulz drew nearly 18, 000 strips. The strips themselves, plus merchandise and product endorsements, produced revenues of more than $1 billion per year, with Schulz earning an estimated $30 million to $40 million annually.