Remembering Charles M. Schulz

Benjamin L Clark
3 min readFeb 12, 2020

It’s been 20 years since Charles M. “Sparky” Schulz died. It’s hard to believe it was that long ago. As tributes and remembrances pour forth today, I can’t help but remember that day too.

Charles M. Schulz in 1956. Photo by Roger Higgins, Library of Congress

I remember well when I read the news, though it was otherwise unremarkable for me. I was a Sophomore at York College in York, Nebraska. As was my routine, when I was “home” on campus for the weekend, I walked across the…

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Benjamin L Clark

Writer, comics museum curator, bibliophile. Eisner Award winner, 2023. http://benjaminlclark.com