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Autobiographical essays, introductions, articles, reviews, and lectures that tell the personal tale of the Peanuts creator and America's greatest comic strip.
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Cartoonists, Biography, Artists, Humor, Autobiography, Comic Strips & Cartoons, Schulz, charles m. (charles monroe), 1922-2000Places
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My Life with Charlie Brown
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My Life with Charlie Brown
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Book Details
First Sentence
"Charles Moroe Schulz, better known as "Sparky" among this family and firends, was twentieth-century America's favorite and most highly respected cartoonist."
Table of Contents
Introduction
Page ix
Chronology
Page xv
MY LIFE
My life and art with Charlie Brown and others
Page 3
Peanuts as profession of faith
Page 20
Commencement address at Saint Mary's College
Page 26
Charles Schulz and Peanuts
Page 32
The Christmas that almost got stolen
Page 37
Snoopy's senior world hockey tournament
Page 41
I'll be back in time for lunch
Page 46
The fan: baseball is life, I'm afraid
Page 51
Comic inspiration
Page 57
Don't grow up
Page 60
My shot: good grief!
Page 67
A morning routine
Page 69
Questions about reading that children frequently ask
Page 71
MY PROFESSION
Developing a comic strip
Page 77
Peanuts: how it all began
Page 85
Creativity
Page 89
A career in cartooning
Page 104
Why 100 million of us (gasp!) read the comics
Page 111
Happiness is a lot of assignments
Page 116
On staying power
Page 123
Address to the National Cartoonists Society Convention
Page 126
Pleasures of the chalk-talk
Page 141
MY ART
The theme of Peanuts
Page 147
But a comic strip has to grow
Page 164
What do you do with a dog that doesn't talk?
Page 171
Appendix
'Pale Horse, Pale Rider' by Katherine Anne Porter
Page 181
A poem for jeannie
Page 187
Index
Page 189
Edition Notes
Includes index.
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