Cover to Peanuts book "Charlie Brown's All Stars" by Charles Schulz

Charles Schulz, the creator of 'Peanuts', is one of the most popular and influential humorist comic artists ever. He was born as Charles Monroe Schulz (and nicknamed Sparky) into a family of German-Norwegian origins in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Saint Paul.After he fought in Europe in the second World War, he started drawing the comic 'L'il Folks', a precursor of 'Peanuts'. The strip was published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press between 1947 and 1950. Text (c) Lambiek