Matt Groening and Jonathan Franzen on Charlie Brown
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[caption id="attachment_474" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="First Peanuts comic, October 2, 1950, by Charles M. Schulz"][/caption]
Today's Guardian has Simpson's creator Matt Groening and The Corrections author Jonathan Franzen paying tribute to Charles M. Schulz's genius comic strip:
Groening:
I got to meet Schulz once, in May 1998. I was holed up on the Fox lot in Century City, working on some Simpsons nonsense, when I received word that the great man was eating lunch nearby. I dropped everything and raced across town, stumbling into the restaurant where the affable Schulz held court before a group of fans and friends. I told him of my ...