Author David Michaelis said that the Schulz family knew from his "Schulz and Peanuts" proposal and from his 1998 biography of artist N.C. Wyeth that he would take a warts-and-all approach. "Schulz ...and Peanuts," a book that puts a dent in cartoonist Charles Schulz's public sainthood by chronicling his flaws in addition to the positives, offers many revelations and anecdotes Michaelis found during seven years of interviewing 200-plus people and studying Schulz's personal and studio archives as well as "Peanuts" business papers saved by United Feature Syndicate. Michaelis did stress that Schulz's brooding was creative fuel for "Peanuts," which often had dark humor. One way Michaelis learned about Schulz was by reading every "Peanuts" comic from 1950 to 2000.
A host of heart-themed books offer a variety of Valentines this season. A plush Teddy bear holds a giant heart pleading Be My Valentine by Salina Yoon, attached to a tiny die-cut board book, which ...follows a girl making Valentines for her mother and father. (Little Simon, $5.99 10p ages 1-4 ISBN 1-4169-0536-7; Jan.)
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The best way to ensure that great artistry and entertainment are broadly known yet never granted the full respect they are due is to work in an art form associated with children. The past century in ...American culture has witnessed the work of a number of creative geniuses, such as Walt Disney, Jim Henson, and Chuck Jones, who plied their craft in cartoons and puppetry. This gave their work a reach and resonance others could only dream of, allowing them to inhabit the imaginations of audiences who carried that imprint their entire lives. And yet we tend not to treat them as serious artists. The same could be said of Charles Monroe Schulz, the Peanuts creator who was born in Minneapolis on November 26, 1922, to a German immigrant and the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, and who died in his sleep on February 12, 2000, the night before his final comic strip ran in the Sunday papers.
