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**Charles** **M Schulz** **– Cartoonist** ** Inventor of Peanuts and Charlie Brown ** early-life and Educatoin Schulz was born in Minneapolis, U.S.A. He was the only child of Carl Schulz and Dena Halverson. Schulz attended St Paul’s Richard Gordon Elementary School where he skipped 2 half grades. As a result of being the youngest in his class he was very shy. Because of this he spent a lot of time on his own drawing. As a child he drew a picture of his dog Sparky and this was published by Robert Ripley. He took ideas from his own life and used them in his comic strips called Charlie Brown and Peanuts. Like Charlie Browns parents, Schulz’s father was a barber and his mother was a housewife. Both Schulz and Charlie Brown were very shy. Schulz and Charlie Brown both had a dog, although different breeds. There are references in Charlie Brown’s life to a place called Needles, California. As a child, Schulz lived here for a time. Linus and Shermy were both named after good friends of Schulz. The character Peppermint Patty was inspired by a cousin. ** Interesting facts about Charles M Schulz ** Schulz served in the U.S army from 1943-45. He was also an art teacher. He had 4 children. Schulz had a long association with figure skating and ice hockey and had an arena named after him. Figure skating and ice hockey featured in many of his cartoons. The cartoon Peanuts ran for nearly 50 years. It appeared in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Schulz received a number of awards in his lifetime.

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** Charles **** Schulz **** was born in ** ** Minneapolis ****, Minnesota ****. He grew up in **** Saint Paul ****. He was the only child of Carl Schulz, who was **** German **** , and Dena Halverson, who was  **** Norwegian ** **. His uncle nicknamed him "Sparky" after the horse Spark Plug in the **// [|//Barney Google//] //** comic strip. **   ** Schulz loved drawing and sometimes drew his family dog, Spike, who ate unusual things, such as pins and tacks. Schulz drew a picture of Spike and sent it to **//** [|Ripley's Believe It or Not] [|!] **//** ; In 1943, he was drafted into the ** **  [|United States Army]  ****  and served as a sergeant with the  ****  [|U.S. 20th Armoured] [|Division]  ** ** in Europe. **   ** The unit saw combat only at the very end of the war. Years later, he proudly spoke of his wartime service. After discharge in late 1945, he returned to Minneapolis where he took a job as an art teacher. **   ** Schulz's first regular cartoons, **//** [|Li'l Folks]  **//**, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the **// [|//St. Paul Pioneer Press//] //** ; he first used the name **//** [|Charlie Brown]  **//** for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. **   ** The series also had a dog that looked much like ** ** [|**Snoopy**] ** **. **   ** In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to the **//** [|Saturday Evening Post]  **//** ; the first of seventeen single-panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have **// Li'l Folks //** syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. **