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    Address 7021 Hollywood Blvd.

    Ceremony date 06/28/1996

About
Charles M. Schulz
Born:
1922-11-26,
Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
USA
Education:
Central High School, MN
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
-0001-11-30
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Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.

Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Schulz grew up in Saint Paul. He was the only child of Carl Schulz, who was German, and Dena Halverson, who was Norwegian. His uncle nicknamed him “Sparky” after the horse Spark Plug in the Barney Google comic strip.

Schulz loved drawing and sometimes drew his family dog, Spike, who ate unusual things, such as pins and tacks. Schulz drew a picture of Spike and sent it to Ripley’s Believe It or Not!; his drawing appeared in the comic published by Robert Ripley, captioned “A hunting dog that eats pins, tacks, and razor blades is owned by C. F. Schulz, St. Paul, Minn.” and “Drawn by ‘Sparky'”

Schulz attended St. Paul’s Richard Gordon Elementary School, where he skipped two half-grades. When he was in first grade, his mother helped him get valentines for everybody in his class, so that nobody would be offended by not getting one; but he felt too shy to put them in the box at the front of the classroom, so he took them all home again to his mother.

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