Funny Things: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz Announced
Peanuts creator Charles Schulz just turned 100. We mean his bones did — he obviously didn’t live that long. But his creation will last forever — one of the greatest comic strips of all time, often cited as THE greatest. On the day of his centennial birthday, almost every single comic strip with a syndication deal expressed their love for him in the largest cooperative tribute the newspaper funnies have ever seen. You likely know all about Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest (and if you don’t, I have to give you the suspicious side-eye) but how much do you know about their creator? Top Shelf Productions, a division of IDW, is whipping up a new biography of the man his friends called “Sparky” in the medium he forever affected — the form of a comic strip. How cool is this? There have been plenty of books written about Schulz at this point, but none that “speak his language” quite like this does. “Charles Schulz stated several times