![]() ![]() “He thought it was impossible to draw a happy comic strip and actually he was fond of saying that ‘Happiness is a sad song,’” Michaelis said in a recent interview. Not for a minute did he believe that “Happiness was a warm puppy” - and he may not have believed in happiness at all. It portrays Schulz as a man who felt unseen and unloved even if his readers numbered in the hundreds of millions.īiographer David Michaelis, author of “Schulz and Peanuts,” said the cartoonist was also a man who could neither forget nor forgive any slight or lonely moment. ![]() The book is based on six years of research, unlimited access to family papers, more than 200 interviews and a close reading the 17,897 strips Schulz wrote and drew. The creator of the beloved Peanuts comic strip was a shy, lonely man who used his child-like drawings to depict a life of deep melancholy, according to a controversial new biography. Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" characters is shown in this undated file photograph. ![]()
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