The American cartoonist left us a great legacy with Charlie Brown and Snoopy difficult to forget. Many know their stories, few know their name. It's about Charles M. Schulz, the creator of one of the most famous gangs in the animated world that taught us to dream big.
His life is based on a humble childhood, whose father, Karl Schuz, he was a barber and his mother, Denna Halverson, housewife. The cartoonist grew up in the capital of the state of Minnesota, Saint Paul, with a shyness and striking loneliness by not socializing too much with his classmates.
In 1943, at the age of 21, he enlisted in the United States Army of America after the premature death of his mother. What lived in World War II marked him on a personal level to such an extent to become a skeptic with the human being and decided to leave him in 1945 to devote yourself to the world of Artistic teaching.
His first comic works were published between 1947 and 1949 in St. Paul Pioneer Press under the name of "Li'l folks". A strip that tried to market shortly after in “Newspaper Enterprise Association '', but did not end up. In 1949 if he would get it in "United Features Syndicate" finally marketing his work and emerging like this Peanuts, who made their first public appearance October 2, 1950.
With this step forward, his work would be recognized as one of the most popular of the world When selling thousands of copies of their comics and publishing a strip about sports called ‘It's Only A Game’, between 1957 and 1959. The glorious era at an economic level for Charlie Schulz would arrive between 1970 and 1980, when he earned a considerable amount of money with the sale of his publications and ended up allocating it to the most needy.
However, everything was twisted in November 1999 when he suffered a heart attack, and a little later a Colorectal cancer, which had triggered metastasis causing him the death he February 12 of 2000.
