It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

About the author

Charles M. Schulz once described himself as ‘born to draw comic strips.’ At just two days old an uncle nicknamed him ‘Sparky’ after the horse Spark Plug from the Barney Google comic strip. Throughout his youth, he and his father shared a Sunday morning ritual of reading the funnies.

After serving in the army in World War 1, Schulz’s first big break came in 1947 when he sold a cartoon feature called Li’I Folks to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 1950, Schulz met with United Feature Syndicate, and on October 2 of that same year, PEANUTS™, as termed by the syndicate, debuted in seven newspapers.

Charles Schulz would spend the next 50 years building a legacy that would give the world Charlie Brown, Snoopy and a whole cast of characters that would forever change the landscape of American comic strips.