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I finally finished reading the Charles Schulz biography by David Michaelis. There’s been a lot said and written about this book and its supposedly fudging of the details. However, I won’t give any caveats when I say that this was an eye-opening read.

The most interesting thing I learned was just how autobiographical Peanuts was. Between Michaelis’ examples and simply reading the Complete Peanuts books that correspond to passages written in the biography, I was amazed by how much of himself Schulz put into that strip.

After reading this biography, whatever else that will be written about Charles Schulz’s life will first and foremost be held up against Schulz’s own account of it through his art.

As an aside, here are some Peanuts strips that I had pasted in my college sketchbook. I always laugh when I reread them:

Amos B. Coe House
1700 3rd Ave. S., Minneapolis
Construction, 1884

There’s this Flickr site that just has a bunch of people inking a Kirby page. I inked a panel from that page:

For anyone who prefers Livejournal to Blogger, I’ve figured out how to post to both. Go to willdinski.livejournal.com, become my friend and you’ll learn all my deepest darkest secrets.

Here is a postcard I made for the SSCA Members’ Show & Halloween Party.

Be there Saturday, October 27th • 8PM-Midnight

Exhibition Runs October 27th – November 25th