Charles Schulz initially learned how to draw by answering an advertisement that asked, "Do you like to draw?" His art school correspondence school was the inauspicious start to his nationally syndicated strip Peanuts.

Charles Schulz died on February 12, 2000 from complications due to color cancer. He was 77 years old. He is buried at the Pleasant Hills Memorial Park in Sebastopol, California.

The last Peanuts cartoon was drawn by Schulz shortly before he died, and was printed the day after his passing (Feb. 13, 2000).

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Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist and creator of the popular Peanuts strip, grew up in this home.

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Vladek Spiegelman hustles for food coupons and contraband all along Modrzejowkska Street while Poland is occupied by the Nazis in the graphic novel Maus.

He also witnesses the hanging of four other Jews on the street when they are arrested for dealing goods without coupons.

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This home in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens is where the Spiegelman family lived, and it's featured extensively throughout Art Spiegelman's interviews with his father in the classic graphic novel, Maus (Pantheon Books/winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize).

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