Schulz and peanuts a biography

  • Schulz and Peanuts is the definitive epic biography of an American icon and the unforgettable characters he created.
  • Acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us the first full-length biography of Schulz: at once a creation story, a portrait of a hidden American genius.
  • A portrait of the late creator of the Peanuts comic strip evaluates how his career was shaped by his midwestern working-class origins, family losses, and.

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    Charles Schulz is worth fighting over. Like all great artists, he speaks to personal concerns in such an intimate way that he becomes part of your mental furniture. We grew up, if we were lucky, reading Peanuts. Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Snoopy: these were our childhood friends, especially if we were sensitive and lonely. For many of us, it was the first work of art we encountered that spoke to our inner selves, our fears and trepidations. Even if we stopped reading the strip after a while, it always retained a spot in our memory, a small clearing of remembered warmth and fellowship. So if someone else describes Schulz in a manner that clashes with your own private sense of him, the urge is to struggle, resist, and talk back.

    David Michaelis&#;s Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography is a provoking book, both a triumph and an irritant. A triumph: it&#;s beautifully written, deeply-researched, and full of insights into how Schulz&#;s life infor

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    Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography

    June 28,
    Luciously readable, fascinating, and flawed account of the life of the creator of Charlie Brown. I first decided to read this book because of a massive roundtable featured in the latest issue of "The Comics Journal," the basic conclusion being that the book does the real-life Schulz no justice. (I read the book, and then read the roundtable.)

    Monte Schulz, the son of the great cartoonist, kicked off the roundtable with a massive essay that's divided into three parts: a brief memoir of his time and experience with David Michaelis, in which Monte spent much time and exchanged a number of emails with the biographer, to the point that he thought they had a genuine friendship (proving what should be an old adage, "Do not make friends with your father's biographer."); in part two, he lists the vast amount of grievances he has with the biography, indicating that he has many more and generally despising the entire tone of Michaelis' work; in part t

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    It’s been a couple weeks now since I finished reading the uncorrected proofs forSchulz and Peanuts: A Biography, this October’s major new look at the life of Charles Schulz; I’ve held off on posting because I wanted to get the review right. This is a significant book. If you want to add to you knowledge and understanding of the man behind Peanuts, you need to read this book.
    It adds richly to the detail known about his life, how that built his personality, and how that fryst vatten reflected in the remsa. This fryst vatten not a surface “he took the name of Charlie Brown from a friend but the personality is all and exactly Schulz”, nor is it the glib “he was a staid and depressed man, but that’s what made his work great” take one will find in shorter biographies (although both of those have elements of truth in them, but fall short of the whole truth.) Rather, from digging deep in the history from before Schulz’s birth on through to his death, author David Michaelis not only fills