Charlie Brown and Charles Schultz

Charles Schultz had closed doors at every turn. He initially could not get any newspapers to run his comic. Eventually somebody too a chance. And the comics caught on like wildfire. You would think that would have established him. However he also had a hard time getting anybody to pick up a 30 minute show.

Eventually, again, somebody took a chance. The Charlie Brown TV special broke all kinds of records and immediately won awards. TV was conquered and follow on shows went on to dominate for years. The final frontier was the stage. Again, there was a hard time getting a musical of Peanuts on stage. They started small. And the New York Times praised it.

Schultz works alone in drawing his comics. He does have a secretary to handle non-drawing tasks. He did farm out work for animation in his TV specials. All his work turns to gold. Even an album related to Peanuts was solid gold.