Posted by mark0 at 204.246.14.98 on December 15, 1999 at 12:50:04:
In Reply to: Is anyone really going to miss Peanuts? posted by Placenta Jones on December 15, 1999 at 10:57:09:
...but it doesn't really speak to me too much anymore.
Still, it makes me sad to read that his health forced him to
step down. Talk about your work ethic! No one laid a hand on
the strip but him: no inker, no letterer, no colorist; he didn't
solicit strip ideas from his readers (like Scott Adams does);
in an age of brilliant cartoonists who flame out too fast (see
Bill Watterson) or take sabbaticals, he only took a few weeks
off around his 75th birthday. Other than that, every aspect
of the strip, every day for nearly half a century. Pretty
impressive, IMHO.
I just hope he made enough money to have a comfortable retirement
(snicker).