My Life with Charlie Brown

The book Schulz and Peanuts a Biography by David Michaelis left a bitter taste in the mouth with the Schulz estate who gladly opened the doors to him with an exclusivity into the Peanuts world and in return David misconstrued the cartoonist in a rather negative light. Die-hard fans were not too impressed by a well written biography that took many liberties on a man who could not defend himself because of his predicament of being dead. The only way to shed a better light into Charles Schulz is to collect most of his life captured through his own writings. My Life with Charlie Brown is a collection of autobiographical essays, introductions, articles, reviews, and lectures that tell the personal tale of the Peanuts creator. Comic book scholar M. Thomas Inge edits and supplies an introduction to what promises to great addition to the Peanuts universe.

Inge and the Schulz estate have chosen a number of illustrations to include. With the approval and cooperation of the Schulz family, Inge draws on the cartoonist’s entire archives, papers, and correspondence to allow Schulz full voice to speak his mind. The project includes his comics criticism, his introductions to Peanuts volumes, his essays about philanthropy, his commentary on Christianity, his newspaper articles about the creation of his characters, and more. My Life with Charlie Brown will reveal new dimensions of this legendary cartoonist.