Schulz’s high school yearbook
photo, 1940.

United States Army portrait of Sergeant
Schulz, c. 1943

Beloved by generations of fans all over the world, Charles M.
Schulz, creator of the beloved "Peanuts" characters, was
born on this day in history, Nov. 26, 1922.

Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and  nicknamed
"Sparky" by an uncle within days after his birth, according
to multiple sources.
 (FOX NEWS)

Battery-operated Toy car, Dick Tracy Squad Car No.1, c.1949,
by Marx Toys.

Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally
Plainclothes Tracya tough and intelligent police detective
created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday,
October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror, and was distributed
by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.

Paul Coker Jr. (March 5, 1929 – July 23, 2022)

The animation industry has lost another prolific artist. Paul
Coker Jr., a cartoonist and designer whose career spanned
nearly five decades, passed away on Saturday, July 23 at his
home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

Coker’s first appearance in Mad was in 1961; and went on to illustrate
over 375 articles for the magazine.

J. Wellington Wimpy (above), generally referred to as Wimpy, is
one of the characters in the comic strip Popeye, by E. C. Segar           
and originally called Thimble Theatre, and in the Popeye
cartoons  based upon the strip. Wimpy debuted in the strip
in 1931 and was one of the dominant characters in the
newspaper strip, but when  Popeye was adapted as an
animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios, Wimpy
became a minor character.                     
    

      
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Elzie Crisler Segar
(1894-1938) 

DALLAS (AP) — Cartoonist Jim Davis (above) is offering up more than 11,000 “Garfield” comic strips hand-drawn on paper in an auction that will stretch
into the coming years, with at least a couple of strips featuring the always-
hungry orange cat with a sardonic sense of humor available weekly.

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions began offering up the strips in August. The
auction house is selling two daily strips each week, along with longer
Sunday strips being offered during the large-scale auctions throughout
the year.

The strips span from the launch of “Garfield” in 1978 to 2011, when Davis
began drawing the strip digitally. He says he still draws it by hand but now
it’s with a stylus on a tablet instead of on paper with a pencil, pen and brush.

June, 1978