| After nearly 50 years of drawing "Peanuts," the world-famous
cartoonist put down his pen in January, his hand gone shaky, his vision
blurred. Being a comic strip artist was all he had ever wanted. On February
12, 2000, a dark night of pouring rain in Santa Rosa, California, Schulz
got into bed a little after nine o'clock. He pulled up the covers. At 9:45
p.m., just hours before the final "Peanuts" strip appeared in Sunday newspapers
around the world, Charles Schulz died — his life entwined to the very end
with his art. As soon as he ceased to be a cartoonist, he ceased to be. |
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