2016

In Peanuts, Charles Monroe “Sparky” Schulz (1922-2000) crafted a compelling comedy of melancholy, a popular mythology that gave voice to the anxiety and insecurities of the generations growing up in the rapidly changing world after World War II. Peanuts explored the conflict within the person, as each came face to face with an impersonal and uncaring world, and it did so through the medium of a newspaper comic strip starring children – and a particularly un-doglike dog. Schulz had complete control over not just the strip, but also the vast merchandising empire that accompanied it. Schulz died in 2000, the night…