Movement, Style, School or Type of Art:
Comics and Sequential Art

Date and Place of Birth:
November 26, 1922, St. Paul, Minnesota

Life:
Charles ("Sparky") Schulz's comic strip characters - icons in modern culture - are known and loved around the world. He was a positive genius at minimalism, showing a wealth of emotion and expression in his characters' faces with just a few lines. He humorously (but tenderly) touched on common themes of feeling out-of-place, unrequited love, and sadness - and made us smile at them.

Best Known For:

Peanuts syndicated comic, 1950-2000
"A Charlie Brown Christmas" animated television special, 1965; shown yearly since

Date and Place of Death:
February 12, 2000, Santa Rosa, California