Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michaelis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
For being a cartoonist (humorist), Charles Schulz was certainly a lonely, tragically withdrawn figure.
I agree with many that Peanuts lacked humor, but at least for me Charlie Brown and to a certain extent the others resonated with me as awkward types that didn't fit in. Also, the kid's eye-level view with the adults relegated to a verbally noisy existence out of the frame was, and is, cool and vaguely anti-establishhment. Charlie Brown's sad Xmas tree, the double stiff-armed stage dance in the same Xmas special and sulking in the pumpking patch I still remember fondly like Snoopy's WWI dreams, Lucy's crabby psychiatry and her vicious ball pranks and, well, I guess it worked for me then, I don't need to laugh now... I recommend reading the Schulz bio. He was an imperfect, unfair and philosophically regressive man that still was very innovative, impactful and even important, IMHO.
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