Letter From Charles Schulz
on January 17, 2013
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to send a letter to your favorite cartoonist asking for a comic strip and get a letter back?
It’s 1966, and you want to own an original Peanuts comic strip by your favorite comic strip artist, Charles Schulz. You write him a letter, hoping to get a response. Would he send a strip? Could you be so lucky? Well, feast your eyes on this letter, a request by an interested party to Mr. Schulz for a comic strip…
Bear in mind, that strip, which was freely given, is worth at least $15,000 today. Not bad for a freebie!
That is very cool! If it was mine I doubt I could sell it.
I’m sure you would, but I’ve seen a lot of strips inscribed by Schulz to individuals go up for auction. I guess it’s all a matter of whether you want the art or the money…
I’ll take the “art” for $200 Alex! In this case, having an original of his, is more important to see hanging on my wall than in my bank account.
I’ve actually been putting money aside, I want some original Flintstones cells one day! We’ll see! [cha-ching]
I guess when the value of an original piece of art starts pushing into the five figures and higher, some people see it as a commodity, not art.
How cool is that from the Man himself.
He would just throw a strip in the mail to you! How’s that for making your day?
Wow! I wonder how often he did something like that? Very cool…
I believe he was pretty generous with his strips back in the day. From what I’ve heard, if he felt it was worth the effort, he’d send one out.
Sweet
Yes, paper gold in the mail!
I’d frame that letter!
It was kept with the strip, so somebody felt it was important.
It was kept with the strip, so somebody felt it was important.
Based on his biography he was very generous and tried to complete all requests that were sent to him until there just became too many for him to do. He was a wonderful man.
I imagine he wanted to give something back to the people who supported and admired his work. Thanks for stopping by and commenting, Mickel.
I have a letter from Mort Walker from 1977. He responded to my letter, but he turned me down on an original strip. He did send a full size replica though.
I bet you treasure that letter, Tom.
Very neat! I sure wish I had written to all those artists back in the day. Who knows, some may have even sent something back.
The chances are good they would have. Strips didn’t have the market value in those days as they do now.
I would die for any little bit of original Shultz art.
I’d settle for a doodle myself, but all his work is so steep!
Awesome post Mark. 🙂
Thanks, Daniel. It was something fun to share.
Thank you for sharing this with us. Have you ever thought about writing a book about comic history? Or just making a book with pictures and short aground stores about old comic art work.
I enjoy sharing fun stuff I find, Hjortur. If you like these kinds of blog posts I’ll try to write more.