Cartoonist Charles Schulz poses with a sketch of Snoopy in his office in Santa Rosa, Calif. Schulz, who died shortly after his retirement in 2000, would have turned 100 on Nov. 26.
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Cartoonist Charles Schulz poses with a sketch of Snoopy in his office in Santa Rosa, Calif. Schulz, who died shortly after his retirement in 2000, would have turned 100 on Nov. 26.
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The man who brought us Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang would be turning 100 today.
Cartoonist Charles Schulz died in February 2000, the night before his final comic strip ran in the Sunday paper.
But the characters he created and developed over the course of five decades still endure, in the form of reruns, beloved TV specials, a movie and a museum dedicated to Schulz’s work. So too does the comfort they provide.
That’s according to Schulz’s widow, Jeannie Schulz, and Gina Huntsinger, the director of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif. They spoke to Morning Edition about Schulz’s life and legacy, which Huntsinger calls “pervasive.”
Charles Schulz and Jean Schulz, pictured in 1975.
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