The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Committee of Retired Faculty will host a presentation featuring James Froemel as cartoonist Charles Schulz at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow (Dec. 6) at the Mountaineer Mall in Morgantown and on Zoom.
A World War II veteran, Schulz was a cartoonist best known as the creator of the Peanuts comic strip that featured Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus and all the rest of the gang.
In 1950, his first Peanuts strip was published in seven newspapers, and at the time of his death in 2000, the strip was appearing in 2,600 papers around the world.
Schulz recognized that comics were not just a medium for children, and his ability to connect with people through a four-panel strip using dry humor, sarcasm, wit and melancholy resulted in an ongoing daily narrative that lasted nearly 50 years.
The popularity of his characters worldwide put them in demand for television specials, merchandise, movies, books, theatrical productions and commercials, as well as a NASA spacecraft named in their honor.
The presentation is free and open to the public.