Snoopy Beginning
Snoopy It made its debut on October 4, 1950, two days after the start of the strip. Schulz originally planned to call him "Sniffy ", changing his mind when he realized that the name had already been used in a different comic strip. In its first two years of existence Snoopy had many more similarities to real dogs: it walked on its four legs and was completely mute (i.e., it did not verbalize its thoughts to the reader in balloons). With the passage of time, however, it acquired more human characteristics. In addition to being able to communicate his thoughts to readers, Snoopy also had the ability to understand everything the human characters he interacted with were saying
His Life
Snoopy was born on August 10 at a puppy farm in Daisy Hill, along with his 7 siblings: Spike, Belle, Marbles, Olaf, Andy, Molly and Rover. His first owner was a girl named Lila, who had to return him when her family moved to another apartment where they did not accept dogs. Later, Carlitos (Charlie Brown) acquires it, who would be its owner definitively. Snoopy's house is located in Carlitos' garden, although he always sleeps or lies on top of it, as he has claustrophobia and can't stand being inside for a long time. It is said that inside it he keeps some personal belongings such as records, books, a painting by Van Gogh and even a pool table.
Snoopy Comics
In 1947, Charles Schulz drew a strip called Li'l Folks for a hometown newspaper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Li'l Folks was published weekly for four years. When Schulz asked for the strip to be daily, he ended up being fired. In 1948, Schulz sold a comic strip panel for the Saturday Evening Post and continued to sell them between 1948 and 1950. In 1950, Schulz went to New York with many drawing projects for a meeting that was very important in his career with the United Feature Syndicate (UFS) publishing company. And on October 2, 1950, Peanuts made its debut in seven newspapers in the United States and immediately became a great success. The success of the newspaper strips was so great that from 1965 animated specials of the characters were made on television, the first of which was A Charlie Brown Christmas, and to date 45 specials have been produced.
Curiosities
Charles Monroe Schulz never liked the title of the strips (Peanuts), it was imposed by his publisher. It was the most important and influential strip of the twentieth century in the United States, being published in more than 2,600 newspapers, for some 355 million readers in 75 countries and translated into 40 languages. Originally, Snoopy was going to be called Sniffy, but there was already another animation dog with that name. Snoopy will go down in history as the only Seneca follower dog to have ever lived. Charles M. Schulz drew every line, every background and every image of his 7 weekly strips throughout his life, most famous cartoonists have a team of cartoonists who pass the drawings to ink or even do the drawing part, while they only sketch the plot and the texts. Snoopy's amusement park, it's called Knott's Berry Farm Schulz did a cartoonist course, where he was the worst student, his first drawing of "charlie" was cataloged as a horrible caricature of a big-headed child.
Emilio (Woodstock)
Snoopy became friends with birds in the early 1960s, when they began using their kennel for a variety of purposes: a stop to rest during migrations, a place to make nests, or a place to play cards. None of these birds have been given names nor have they had speech bubbles; they just looked at Snoopy and he understood them. What sets Woodstock apart from the other birds is that it accompanies Snoopy and takes on the role of Snoopy's sidekick and assistant.
Charlie Brown
Good Charlie Brown is loyal, determined, and just a bit wishy-washy. He is a true friend , a dedicated baseball manager, and very responsible when it comes to taking care of his dog, Snoopy. Charlie Brown never gives up, even when he probably should. He is kind and patient by nature, and wears his heart on his sleeve. He likes helping others, but try as he might, he just can not seem to help himself.
"Charlie Brown must be the one who suffers, because he is a caricature of the average person. Most of us are much more acquainted with losing than winning. Winning is great, but it is not funny." ...Charles M. Schulz
Farewell...
If we learned anything from Snoopy, it is that when adults become foolish, obtuse and irrational their voices sound like "Blwa, Blwa-Blwa-Blwa-Blwa, Blwa-Blwa" and that is why they should not be listened to. Charles M. Schulz was Peanuts and it is not uncommon for him to decide that no one else would continue to write the strip after his death and that with deep sorrow he decided to stop drawing it when he learned that he had cancer to concentrate on his health. Something that struck me about the interview that I attach is that with a broken voice he says that he "did the best he could" when Snoopy is considered the largest newspaper strip to date (even about Calvin and Hobbes) and is a world reference for cartoonists and graphic novel writers.
Today, on the 13th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz's retirement, I want to remember the creative genius who showed us that you can be positive in adversity and loneliness, that you can have an obnoxious sister and still love her, friends who often say things at the wrong time but who always accompany you. and that the master is the dog's best friend, no matter how absurd this sounds. I hope that Charles M. Schulz has left with the certainty that his legacy continues, because it is inevitable to think of him every time we hear a "Blwa, Blwa-Blwa-Blwa-Blwa, Blwa-Blwa"