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Charles Schulz

American cartoonist
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Charles Schulz (born November 26, 1922, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.—died February 12, 2000, Santa Rosa, California) was an American cartoonist who created Peanuts, one of the most successful American comic strips of the mid-20th century. Schulz, the son of a barber, studied cartooning in an art correspondence school after graduating in 1940 from high school. He served in the army from 1943 to 1945 and returned first as an instructor with the art school and then...

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