![]() Tracey was flirtatiously admiring of the crew-cutted, professorial Schulz, and Schulz was very taken with her gold-green eyes and her perfect little nose. The affair happened this way: One day a young businesswoman named Tracey came to visit. She built an ice arena, and managed the Peanuts Visitor’s Center. ![]() After an affair in his 50’s with a woman of 25, Schulz had Snoopy say, “Can a person really be in love with two different snowflakes at the same time?” Schulz’s wife, Joyce, was, by many accounts, a difficult woman-belittling and bossy in ways that resembled Lucy in the comic strip. Michaelis’ biography brilliantly shows, Schulz sometimes used Peanuts to allegorize and make sense of his secret life. If he didn’t draw them, he once said, he would be dead. He was willing to draw these same minimalist, round-headed people thousands of times-tens of thousands of times-decade after decade. He needed all of humanity to be sitting there with him at the drawing board every day, musing over the adventures of Snoopy and his group of tiny-bodied children with big round heads. ![]() ![]() He was intensely jealous of any cartoonist who syndication numbers began to rival his own- Garfield’s Jim Davis, for example. During the Vietnam War, he gave the military permission to use Snoopy on sidewinder missiles. ![]() Even after he had made a huge fortune by using his characters to promote Ford Falcons, Brownie Cameras, sheets, towels, lunchboxes and plush toys, he craved wider coverage. ![]()
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