Frases de Charles M. Schulz
Charles M. Schulz
Fecha de nacimiento: 26. Noviembre 1922
Fecha de muerte: 12. Febrero 2000
Charles Monroe Schulz fue un historietista estadounidense, autor de la conocida tira cómica Peanuts, protagonizada por Charlie Brown y su pandilla. A lo largo de su vida dibujó 17 000 tiras cómicas y gracias también al merchandising derivado, se convirtió en el dibujante de cómics de más éxito en la segunda mitad del siglo pasado.[1] Wikipedia
Frases Charles M. Schulz
„Linus: Amo a la humanidad, es a la gente a la que no puedo soportar.“
Original en inglés: «Linus: I love Mankind, it's People I Can't Stand».
Fuente: Schulz, Charles M. Around The World In 45 Years. Página 7. Peanuts Series. Edición ilustrada. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1994. ISBN 9780836217667. 192 páginas. https://books.google.es/books?id=9YT7LcIdakAC&pg=PA81&dq=9780836217667&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiSvo-p6NzhAhXsx4UKHWemCecQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=I%20love%20Mankind%2C%20it's%20People%20I%20Can't%20Stand&f=false
„Un dibujante es una persona que tiene que dibujar lo mismo día tras día sin repetirse.“
Original en inglés: «A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day after day without repeating himself».
Fuente: Schulz, Charles M. My Life with Charlie Brown. Página 123. Editor M. Thomas Inge. Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2010. ISBN 9781604734485. 216 páginas. https://books.google.es/books?id=DV8NvhEX2LYC&pg=PA1&dq=9781604734485&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA-bHT2N7hAhVDxYUKHWRfBNMQ6AEIKDAA#v=snippet&q=cartoonist%20is%20someone%20who%20has%20to%20draw%20the%20same%20thing%20day%20after%20day%20after%20day%20without%20repeating%20himself&f=false
„I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous.“
National Cartoonist Society talk, 1994 http://web.archive.org/web/20070416184458/http://www.planetcartoonist.com/editorial/success_charlesschulz.shtml
Contexto: I never give my work to somebody else and say, "What do you think about that?" I just don't trust anybody. If I think it's funny, or if I think it's silly, I send it in anyway because I'm just trying to please myself. I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous. There's no way in the world you can anticipate what your reader is going to like or dislike.
„It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was.“
As quoted in a profile at HarperCollins http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=8773
Contexto: It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.
„Don't worry about the world coming to an end today …… It's already tomorrow in Australia.“
Came from an online quiz falsely attributed to Schulz http://www.snopes.com/glurge/schulz.asp. However, in the 13 June 1980 Peanuts strip http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1980/06/13, Marcie does say "I promise there'll be a tomorrow, sir. In fact, it's already tomorrow in Australia."
Misattributed
„The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.“
Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
„I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.“
Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
„A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.“
— Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown! (1985) ISBN 0030056241
„If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books — but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!“
1992, as quoted by Tom Tomorrow in his comic strip This Modern World (21 February 2000) http://archive.salon.com/comics/tomo/2000/02/21/tomo/index.html
