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Timeline of Charles Schulz’s life
1922
On Nov. 26, Charles Monroe Schulz is born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Shortly after his birth, an uncle of his gives him the nickname “Sparky,” inspired by the horse in a cartoon of the time, “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.” The nickname stuck with Schulz for life.
1934
The inspiration behind the “Peanuts” character Snoopy came to Schulz when he was 12 years old.
His family was given a black-and-white dog named Spike who Snoopy is based upon. He later used Spike as the name for another “Peanuts” character, Snoopy’s desert-dwelling brother beagle.
1937
At 15 years old, Schulz was already working on his cartoons.
Robert Ripley’s newspaper comic “Believe it or Not” included one of Schulz’s drawings of a dog similar to Spike, marking his first published piece.
1940
As a senior at Central High School in St. Paul, Schulz further develops his artistic studies with a correspondence cartoon course with the Federal School of Applied Cartooning, now