Charles Schulz biography

[mr_skullhead]

I read a review of the recently-published "Schulz and Peanuts" biography, which appears to portray him as cold, distant, occasionally womanizing, and plagued by chronic agoraphobia. It's not entirely filled with unflattering content, but several reviews I've seen gush at how it's the first real view that we've seen into this side of his

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[mr_skullhead]

Oh, I would certainly take it with a grain of salt if his family was saying that he was actually happy all the time. What struck me as significant were two things: the fact that a number of non-family colleagues and friends chimed in by saying that the book's characterization was distorted, and the fact that none of them seemed to be describing him as happy all the time. The image they convey is of a loving family man who was a semi-professional worrier. He said that failure was funnier than success, because few people can relate to winning, but everyone has experienced losing