with Charles Schulz on Feb 14, 2000
with Charles Schulz on May 9, 1997
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known worldwide for his “Peanuts” comic strip. He received numerous awards including the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for “Peanuts,” the Society’s Elzie Segar Award, the Reuben Award, the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999, and the Silver Buffalo Award, the highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America.
Schulz was also a hockey fan; in 1981, he was awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy for outstanding contributions to the sport of hockey in the United States, and he was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1993. In 1996, Schulz was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, adjacent to Walt Disney’s. On June 7, 2001 the United States Congress awarded Schulz the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor the US legislature can award.
The Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa opened in 2002 to celebrate his life’s work and art of cartooning. A bronze statue of Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in Depot Park in downtown Santa Rosa. For the past five years, “Forbes Magazine” has rated Schulz the second “highest paid deceased person” in America (after Elvis Presley).
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