When I reviewed the new worst Schulz biography – the one which misspells his name on the cover — I linked to some previous reviews of bad Schulz biographies designed to fill the shelves of school libraries. In doing so, I realize that my review of one such biography which was ruined by its images was done back in the days before the AAUGH Blog carried images… really, before it was the AAUGH Blog, back when it was an email newsletter. As such, I described the flaws rather than show them. Time to rectify that…. so here are just a few images from Charles Schulz: Great Cartoonist, part of the Reaching Your Goal series of books (which had a number of books illustrated by the same artist.

This book was issued in 1989 by Rourke Publishing in Florida, who still produce products for school libraries.

Throughout the book, Schulz is depicted as weraring outfits bearing Charlie Brown’s famous zig-zag pattern.  In this image, it becomes apparent why Charles Schulz was always the smallest in his class; they had for some reason let an eight year old attend The High School For The Freakishly Tall And Occassionally Balding.

But my favorite image of this whole book is the one in which Schulz first visits the offices of United Feature, and finds them on an upper level of a New York skyscraper, with windows that look out over the city.. and a door on the same wall as the windows. Perhaps these offices housed a stock brokerage during the Great Depression, in which case the door came in handy for brokers looking to make a quick and permanent exit after having lost all of their investors’ money. Maybe United Feature Syndicate was hoping that Spider-Man would come visit. Or perhaps this as just one of those things that mankind was not meant to understand.

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