![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout his youth, father and son shared a Sunday morning ritual reading the funnies Sparky was fascinated with strips like Skippy, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye. Sparky’s father, Carl, was of German heritage and his mother, Dena, came from a large Norwegian family the family made their home in St. The poetry of Schulz’s life began two days after he was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, when an uncle nicknamed him “Sparky” after the horse Spark Plug from the Barney Google comic strip. It was a poetic ending to the life of a devoted cartoonist who, from his earliest memories, knew that all he wanted to do was “draw funny pictures.” Schulz, who once described his life as being “one of rejection,” passed away peacefully in his sleep the night before, succumbing to complications from colon cancer. ![]() This Sunday was different, though mere hours before newspapers hit doorsteps with the final original Peanuts comic strip, its creator Charles M. On the morning of Sunday, February 13, 2000, newspaper readers opened their comic pages as they had for nearly fifty years to read the latest adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts Gang. ![]()
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