{"id":140103,"date":"2022-11-26T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/remembering-peanuts-creator-charles-schulz-on-his-100th-birthday-npr\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:17:22","slug":"remembering-peanuts-creator-charles-schulz-on-his-100th-birthday-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/remembering-peanuts-creator-charles-schulz-on-his-100th-birthday-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering ‘Peanuts’ creator Charles Schulz on his 100th birthday : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cartoonist Charles Schulz poses with a sketch of Snoopy in his office in Santa Rosa, Calif. Schulz, who died shortly after his retirement in 2000, would have turned 100 on Nov. 26.
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The man who brought us Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the whole Peanuts <\/em>gang would be turning 100 today. <\/p>\n

Cartoonist Charles Schulz died in February 2000, the night before his final comic strip ran in the Sunday paper. <\/p>\n

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But the characters he created and developed over the course of five decades still endure, in the form of reruns, beloved TV specials, a movie and a museum dedicated to Schulz’s work. So too does the comfort they provide. <\/p>\n

That’s according to Schulz’s widow, Jeannie Schulz, and Gina Huntsinger, the director of the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif. they spoke to Morning Edition<\/em> about Schulz’s life and legacy, which Huntsinger calls “pervasive.” <\/p>\n

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She says he’s had a global influence, from popularizing the term “security blanket” (looking at you, Linus) to inspiring Peanuts<\/em> fans from around the world to visit the museum. The most common comment she gets is that people feel comforted by revisiting something nostalgic that still makes them laugh. <\/p>\n