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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. CMSMIN_180715_04.JPG: from Popeye to Peanuts: Influences on the Comic Art of Charles M. Schulz
2. CMSMIN_180715_07.JPG: Early Influences From his early childhood in the 1920s and 1930s, Schulz was fascinated by comic strips and eagerly read them in four Sunday papers. Many Sunday comic strips, Prince Valiant, Thimble Theater with Popeye, and Moon Mullins, were a full page and beautifully illustrated; a classroom for someone of Sculz's innate genius. Comics, such as the examples displayed here ,shaped his approach to comic art and greatly influenced his later drawing and writing styles.
3. CMSMIN_180715_21.JPG: The comics entered my world early; I was two years old when an uncle nicknamed me "Sparky" short for Spark Plug, Barney Google's horse in a popular comic strip of the time. And that name has stayed with me since. CMS
4. CMSMIN_180715_24.JPG: I also thought there was no one who drew funnier and more warm hearted cartoons than J.R. Williams. CMS
5. CMSMIN_180715_30.JPG: The man who influenced me most was Roy Crane with his drawings of Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy. His rollicking style laid the groundwork for many cartoonists who followed him. CMS
6. CMSMIN_180715_32.JPG: Note the similarities between Percy Crosby's Skippy and Peanuts: the characters (young children wise and often cynical beyond their years), the simplified settings (two characters sitting on a curb talking), and the dry, understated tone of the strip.
7. CMSMIN_180715_36.JPG: I think that it is very important not to include a lot of extraneous details in the characters themselves... or in the background... that would interfere with the flow of the dialogue or the idea itself. I would advise someone to go back and read Percy Crosby's Skippy to see what I'm talking about... CMS
8. CMSMIN_180715_42.JPG: On Schulz's eleventh birthday in 1933, he received Clare Briggs' book How to Draw. Briggs, who died in 1930, had been a working cartoonist since the 1890s. He created many strips including When a Feller Needs a Friend and Someone's Always Taking the Joy Out of Life.
9. CMSMIN_180715_43.JPG: When I reached high school age the work of Milt Caniff and Al Capp influenced me considerably, as well as some of the earlier cartoonists such as Clare Briggs. CMS
10. CMSMIN_180715_49.JPG: During and After World War II
11. CMSMIN_180715_52.JPG: Schulz counted Bill Mauldin as one of his artistic heroes. During World War II, Schulz read the Stars and Stripes and closely followed the adventures of Willy and Joe, Bill Mauldin's popular soldier characters. Schulz greatly admired Mauldin's work, and realized after carefully studying it that he wasn't ready to produce drawings of that quality. After World War II, Schulz was hired as an instructor at Art Instruction, Inc. (where he had taken a correspondence cartoon course while a senior in high school). There he worked with a talented group of people who influenced his art, and his taste in music and literature.
12. CMSMIN_180715_62.JPG: Frank Wing, one of Schulz's mentors and a senior instructor at Art Instruction, Inc., in the 1940s-50s, also created the comic strip Yesterdays in the 1930s. Schulz said of him, "I believe he did much to inspire me. He taught me the importance of drawing accurately..."
13. CMSMIN_180715_72.JPG: After the war, Schulz first encountered George Herriman's work in a 1946 Krazy Kat anthology. According to Schulz, Krazy Kat "did much to inspire me to create a feature that went beyond the mere actions of ordinary children."
Wikipedia Description: Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center
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The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center is a museum dedicated to the works of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. The museum opened on August 17, 2002, and is in Santa Rosa, California.

The museum is home to many of the original Peanuts strips, as well as other artwork by Schulz. Two works by Japanese artist Yoshiteru Otani dominate the Great Hall: a 3.5 ton wood sculpture depicting the evolution of Snoopy and a 22 ft (6.7 m) high ceramic mural made of 3,588 Peanuts strips which combine to form the image of Lucy van Pelt holding the football for Charlie Brown to kick it. Among the museum's permanent exhibits are a work by Christo which depicts Snoopy's doghouse wrapped, Schulz's personal studio and tributes to Schulz from other artists. Inside the museum are 3 galleries with exhibits that change every year.
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