Talk:Charles M. Schulz

Sentence
I'm confused by this sentence: "She asked her to marry him, but he refused." Is it supposed to say that he asked her to marry him, but she refused, or that she asked him to marry her, but he refused? -- Arteitle 00:42, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
 * Good point :-) ... made a mistake ... should be "He asked her to marry him but she refused" ... will be fixed by the time you read this. Xamian 00:12, 8 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Barney Google
just added the closing phrase to "His uncle called him "Sparky" after the horse Spark Plug in Billy DeBeck's comic strip, Barney Google, which Schulz enjoyed reading." The problem with that is that it makes it sound as if the uncle, seeing that Schulz enjoyed the strip, started calling him Sparky. However, this nickname was bestowed just a few days after Schulz was born, and well before even a precocious kid like he was would've been reading. I suggest that the new addition be either removed or rephrased. --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:22, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for bringing this issue here for discussion first.

I added the phrase “which Schulz enjoyed reading” because the Wikipedia article Barney Google and Snuffy Smith quotes from the source http://www.toonopedia.com/google.htm “Comics historian Don Markstein noted that ‘Spark Plug was such a star during the 1920s that children who enjoyed the comics were liable to get "Sparky" for a nickname — for example, Charles M. "Sparky" Schulz, who grew up to create Peanuts.”’ I would be happy to make the change to your version, if you could just give me a page number from your source ( Michaelis or other). Thanks.


 * Michaelis, page 12: :A day or two after Charles was born [...] this [uncle] is said to have turned, not to his sister but to Carl, who loved the comics, and said, "By golly, we're going to call him 'Spark Plug.' " And if you look at the Markstein source, "the comics" is vague - Schulz certainly enjoyed the comics section, but if you're going to state that he liked Barney Google, you should find a better source. Looking at the indexed items for Barney Google and its later title Snuffy Smith in Michaelis, I don't see any such claim there. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:59, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

Error in "Kidnapping attempt"
In its current form, the text refers to Jill Schulz as "the Schulzes' daughter", and before that it was "the couple's daughter". Neither of these is accurate. Jill is the daughter for Charles Schulz with his first wife Joyce (even checking the timeline of events here will make that clear, had she been born when he met Jean, she'd not have been old enough to drive to the house. Jill was actually born in 1958.) This should be corrected to "Charles Schulz's daughter". --Nat Gertler (talk) 18:28, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, although I didn't feel it necessary to specify "Charles" as elsewhere in the paragraph he is referred to simply as "Schulz". ~Anachronist (talk) 22:05, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a MOS:SAMESURNAME situation -- for this paragraph at least, it would be better to refer to CMS as "Charles" than as "Schulz", since here are two other people named Schulz in the paragraph. --Nat Gertler (talk) 22:46, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I agree. Done. ~Anachronist (talk) 23:25, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

final strip relative to death
In a recent edit, changed our text indicating the Schulz died the day before the final strip was published to the day that the final strip was published, accurately citing the just-released AppleTV+ documentary in his comments. So which is right? They both are.

Feb 12, 2000 was a Saturday. The final strip was the February 13 strip, which was a Sunday (as were all of the last few strips, as Sundays were created with a longer lead time than daily strips, so there were a few more weeks of Sundays completed when Schulz's health failed.) However, Sunday papers used to be (and perhaps some places still are, I don't know) delivered to subscribers in two chunks, with all of the feature-type material (funnies, magazine, fashion, lots of ad circulars) in a chunk delivered on Saturday while the more newsy portions arrived on Sunday. So the final strip is the February 13 strip which was published in some places on February 12. --Nat Gertler (talk) 13:57, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

Category:American anti-communists
An IP editor just added some text on Schulz's contribution to Is This Tomorrow (and hey, referenced it to a book I co-wrote) and then added "Category:American anti-communists" to the page. I cannot speak directly to Schulz's attitude toward communism, but his contribution to that comic should not be taken as sufficient sign of it. This was just an art job he was helping out with and should not be taken as a sign of his belief; for the same publisher, he was working on Catholic comics, but he was never a Catholic. I suggest that someone without conflicts of interest review that category addition. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 16:42, 6 March 2024 (UTC)