Charles M. Schulz

American cartoonist, known for creating the comic strip, "Peanuts"
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Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip Peanuts.

A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.
See also:
Peanuts
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown.

Quotes

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I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.
  • It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.
  • A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.
  • I never give my work to somebody else and say, "What do you think about that?" I just don't trust anybody. If I think it's funny, or if I think it's silly, I send it in anyway because I'm just trying to please myself. I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous. There's no way in the world you can anticipate what your reader is going to like or dislike.
    • National Cartoonist Society talk, 1994 [1]
  • I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.
    • Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
  • The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.
    • Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)


Misattributed

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  • Don't worry about the world coming to an end today ...... It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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