Charles Monroe Schulz foi um cartunista americano, criador da série Peanuts e dos personagens Charlie Brown e seu cachorro da raça beagle chamado Snoopy, entre outros.
Iniciou a série de desenhos do Snoopy em 2 de outubro de 1950 e os desenhou por mais de 50 anos, até se aposentar em virtude de sua doença, em 14 de dezembro de 1999. Schulz faleceu em 13 de fevereiro de 2000, vitimado por um ataque cardíaco às 21h45, com 77 anos. Sua última tira foi publicada um dia depois, 14 de fevereiro, uma tira em que se despedia de seus fãs e de seus personagens queridos.
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“A vida é bicicleta com câmbio de dez velocidades. A maioria de nós tem marchas que nunca usamos.”
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use
citado em "Doing It Now" - Página 12, Edwin C. Bliss - Bantam, 1984, ISBN 0553278754, 9780553278750 - 203 páginas
a resposta de Schulz quando questionado por que Charlie Brown nunca conseguia chutar a bola. http://www.omelete.com.br/quad/100008550/Biografia_do_criador_de_Charlie_Brown_vira_motivo_de_polemica.aspx
“O Natal sempre traz um pequeno extra para alguém.”
"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone".
Charles Schulz como citado in: Noel - página 31 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=VpZPFnk_LjYC&pg=PT31, Peter Pauper Press, Inc., 2009, ISBN 1593597738, 9781593597733, 96 páginas
Atribuídas
As quoted in a profile at HarperCollins http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=8773
Contexto: 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.
“I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous.”
National Cartoonist Society talk, 1994 http://web.archive.org/web/20070416184458/http://www.planetcartoonist.com/editorial/success_charlesschulz.shtml
Contexto: 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.
“Don't worry about the world coming to an end today …… It's already tomorrow in Australia.”
Came from an online quiz falsely attributed to Schulz http://www.snopes.com/glurge/schulz.asp. However, in the 13 June 1980 Peanuts strip http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1980/06/13, Marcie does say "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir. In fact, it's already tomorrow in Australia."
Misattributed
“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)
1992, as quoted by Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip This Modern World (21 February 2000) http://archive.salon.com/comics/tomo/2000/02/21/tomo/index.html
“A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.”
You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown! (1985) ISBN 0030056241
