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Past Entertainment Articles. Article for the week of 10/24/07 The secrets of Charles M. Schulz By, Cozmic “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz had more than a few secrets, something
not easily believed when one views the life of the cartoonist, but we
here at RPP have always been fond of how we excel at investigative reporting,
and that man I met in the alley by the trash-container certainly would
not lie. It is known that Schulz was rather shy and withdrawn when he
was a child. People have attributed this to him being the youngest in
his class, due to skipping grades, but the truth is Schulz did not want
anyone to know about the secret and forbidden rituals he was trying to
learn, in order to raise a giant pumpkin that would let him conquer the
world, the moon, and also have the coolest Halloween-decoration on the
street. And yes, this was before the whole role-playing games thing happened
and every kid started tying to summon horrible beasts in their basement
(those imps are a pain to try and chat with, by the way). However, he
did not entirely hide this fact, as is evidenced by the non-appearance
of the Great Pumpkin in the comic, mirroring his failure in real life.
There is a lot of his disappointment in his work, for instance when he
always failed to make his house fly and go back to WW I and fight the
Red Baron, something ancient and evil rituals simply were unable to let
him do.
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