HUMILITY
You all know Charlie Brown, “good old Charlie Brown,” in the comic strip ‘Peanuts’, as mentioned above. What you may not know is that Charlie Brown was a real person. Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, as a young man, worked with two other commercial artists in Minneapolis — a man named Charlie Brown, and a man named Linus Powell. They started an artists’ school together, one of those correspondence schools that advertised in the back pages of comic books. If you’re old enough maybe you remember their ad. It was a sketched figure with the caption, “Draw me and receive a scholarship.” The venture failed and the three went their separate ways. Linus Powell and Charles Schulz went into cartooning and Charlie Brown went into social work. He worked for the Hennepin County Juvenile Detention Center, the rest of his life. Charlie Brown, in real life, was pretty much like Charlie Brown in the comic strip, even in appearance. He was short,…
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