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A6 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2022 © 2022 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 38, No. 51 COMIC STRIP GETS STAMPED: The United States Postal Service has created the Charles M. Schulz Forever stamps to celebrate the fact that the creator of the Peanuts comic strip would have been 100 years old on November 26, 2022. Find out more about this legendary cartoonist on today’s Kid Scoop page! When Charles Schulz was a child, people called the newspaper comic pages “the funnies.” And Charles was a boy who really loved the funnies. Schulz read his local newspaper every day and wanted to make his own funnies one day. He started drawing as a youngster and kept drawing cartoons every day. Do you know the names of these famous Peanuts characters featured on U.S. postage stamps? Do the math to label each character. 7 + 7 = Charlie Brown 8 - 2 = Schroeder 11 + 7 = Peppermint Patty 13 + 3 = Lucy 18 - 6 = Franklin 9 - 4 = Linus 8 + 5 = Pig-Pen 14 4 + 4 = Sally 18 Later in life, Schulz became one of the world’s most successful cartoonists. But as a young man, he had a hard time finding a newspaper or magazine to buy his comic strip. He worked odd jobs to pay his bills. Because Charles Schulz made so many comics featuring hockey, he was admitted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. Growing up in St. Paul, MN, Charles used a hockey stick to hit tennis balls in his grand- mother’s basement. His mother helped him make goalie pads out of gunny sacks with rolled-up newspaper sewn inside. His father made an ice rink in their backyard where Charles and his friends played hockey whenever they could — even by streetlight at night. Charles’s love of hockey lasted his entire life. His five children all learned to skate. In 1969, when a local ice arena closed, Charles bought it and opened the Redwood Empire Arena near his studio in Santa Rosa, CA. Today, the ice arena is called Snoopy’s Home Ice and is located next to the Charles M. Schulz Museum. During World War II, Charles was drafted into the United States Army. He brought a sketch pad and kept on drawing. – CHARLES M. SCHULZ 16 12 5 8 6 13 How many differences can you find between these two hockey players? When he came home to Minnesota, he got a job teaching at the art school where he had studied. It was there he met a man who would become a friend for life. The letters on the correct path reveal his name. Replace the missing words. In 1947, the St. Paul Pioneer Press bought his comic strip, which was called Li’l Folks. In 1950, the strip’s name was ___________ to Peanuts because another comic strip had a name that was too ___________. From that small start, Peanuts became very ___________. It was eventually _____________ in more than 2,600 newspapers and 75 countries! Charles Schulz wrote and _______ every single Peanuts comic strip himself for the next 50 years, inspiring generations of __________ cartoonists. The Peanuts character Snoopy is based on a pet dog that Charles had as a child. Use the code to find out the name of this pet. = A = C = E = H = I = K = P = S Every day, cut out your favorite comic strip from the newspaper. Glue the strips onto blank paper and make your own comic book! Standards Link: Reading Comprehen- sion: Follow written directions. To learn more about Charles M. Schulz, visit www.schulzmuseum.org Erase or white out the words in the bubbles in a comic strip in today’s newspaper. Write in new words for the characters to be “saying.” Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Follow simple written directions. D J B V W S U N I L N O Q O S A L L Y P E G G W O P H J E Y W N R P S K E T C H S I L A E C S U O Y P H T H L A L D M P A C S P R W N S I O P A K H A L W U C O E E C R H D B V T N R T D S C H U L Z S Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognize identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns. This week’s word: SUCCESS The noun success means reaching a goal or accomplishing something one sets out to do. Charles Schulz enjoyed great success as a cartoonist by creating lovable characters. Try to use the word success in a sentence today when talking with your friends and family members. Happy Birthday, Charles M. Schulz ANSWER: When they can draw a crowd. The Peanuts characters were so popular that they were made into books, TV shows, a musical stage show, greeting cards, toys and even movies! Circle every other letter to find out the name of the first Peanuts television special, which aired on CBS in 1965. NEWSPAPER CHARLES SCHULZ PEANUTS SNOOPY DRAW COMIC SKETCH DOG BOOKS LUCY LINUS SALLY PET TEACHING Write a short “Happy Birthday” note to Charles M. Schulz who would be 100 this year.
