You're A Good Man

Charlie Brown Gets the Blues

Good Grief!

Beautifully written, here are two book reviews of Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis. After reading them, it really does make me wonder about both his life... and my own.

They're both pretty long, so if you're feeling lazy, here's an excerpt. Though I believe for it to have its full effect, you should actually read the entire article, I personally found this paragraph from the first review to be most touching:

In December 1999 Schulz addressed a letter to his hundreds of millions of readers, announcing that he was going to retire; no one would succeed him in drawing the strip. Two months later, on Feb. 13, 2000, “the Sunday paper carrying his last cartoon arrived with the stunning news that Charles M. Schulz had died in his sleep of complications of colon cancer,” Mr. Michaelis writes. “Just hours later the final ‘Peanuts’ strip appeared in newspapers around the world. To the very end, his life had entwined with his art. As soon as he had ceased to be a cartoonist, he ceased to be.”

Release Date: October 16, 2007