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Charles M. Schulz
Peanuts * December 5, 1976
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Schulz is credited with pioneering the concept of casting his comic strip with a large group of characters with well-developed personalities. "I have always believed," Schulz wrote in 1975, "that you not only cast a strip to enable characters to do things you want them to, but that the characters themselves, by their very nature and personality, should provide you with ideas. ... The more distinct the personalities are, the better the feature will be. Readers can then respond to the characters as though they were real." Over the years, the "wishy-washiness" of Charlie Brown's personality provided endless fodder for Peanuts strips. |