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Interviews at the Charles M. Schulz Museum

May 19, 2016 by campbell Leave a Comment

Statue of Charlie Brown greets visitors at the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center

On August 10, 2012 I visited the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. While there, I had the privilege of interviewing Jeannie Schulz, the widow of Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, and Lisa Monhoff, the museum’s archivist.

I’ve previously posted these interviews on the website, but wanted to create a playlist that organizes all the audio content into a single source. (The original posts, along with photos, can be found here and here.) Here’s the single-source playlist:

Photo credit: Banner image by Joe Loong, under cc-by-sa-2.0 license.

An interview with Lisa Monhoff, archivist at the Charles M. Schulz museum

September 18, 2012 by campbell 2 Comments

After interviewing Jeannie Schulz, I sat down with Lisa Monhoff, archivist at the Charles M. Schulz museum archivist. We talked mostly about the museum’s archives and how they’re treated. There were also a couple of interesting tangents that I’ve posted below as separate clips.

The archives are really quite neat, and I’m hoping that this interview will prove interesting for Peanuts fans or anybody out there who’s interested in archives and library science.

Peanuts military patches
These are the military patches in the museum archives that Lisa showed me during the interview.
Charlie Brown "men's room" sign
This sign on the men’s room door is quite obviously inspired by the comic strip.

A little postscript here: If anyone’s interested, I dug up some more info on the braille “Twin Vision” version of Happiness is a Warm Puppy — scroll down to the “Happiness is Twin Vision” article on the page linked above.

An interview with Jeannie Schulz, widow of Peanuts artist Charles M. Schulz

September 17, 2012 by campbell Leave a Comment

I’ve always been a Peanuts fan. I loved reading Snoopy’s adventures when I was a kid. And I remember picking up a Peanuts anthology during a particularly tricky stretch of my adult life and feeling less lonely simply because I was reading about characters whose neuroses mirrored my own.

While recovering from my wild boar attack in California earlier this summer, I visited the Charles M. Schulz museum in Santa Rosa. Schulz is, of course, the artist who drew Peanuts during its fifty-year run. I was impressed with the museum, and thought that I might try my luck to see if I could interview someone there for my website. After a little bit of back and forth, I was able to set up interviews with Jeannie Schulz, Charles’ widow, and museum archivist Lisa Monhoff.

I think this interview will probably work best with minimal introduction, so here you go — I guess the only thing that you’d need to know going in is that Charles Schulz’s nickname is “Sparky”.

Jeannie Schulz in Charles' studio
Jeannie Schulz in Charles’ studio. August 10th, 2012.
Snoopy's doghouse, wrapped by Christo
The artist Christo presented Schulz with this version of Snoopy’s doghouse.
Charles Schulz's studio
Charles Schulz’s studio, where I interviewed his widow Jeannie.
Me in Charles Schulz's studio
Here I am looking like a gigantic goober in Charles Schulz’s studio.

 

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