[Charles M. Schultz is] possibly the greatest cartoonist who ever lived
* Guardian *
Forget Wittgenstein and Sartre, the great 20th century philosopher was Snoopy
* Daily Mail *
I grew up with <i>Peanuts</i>. But I never outgrew it . . . For decades, it was our own daily security blanket. That's what makes <i>Peanuts</i> an American treasure
- PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA,
No comic strip before <i>Peanuts</i> ever felt like it was talking to me. I always felt like I knew Charlie Brown and all the other characters and I understood them in a way that I never did with any other strip
- WHOOPI GOLDBERG,
Charles Schulz's brilliant, angst-ridden, truly funny, fifty-year-long masterpiece of joy and heartbreak
- MATT GROENING,
Charles Schulz was, plain and simple, a great artist and philosopher . . . But most importantly, he teaches all ages that if you can learn to laugh at the things that cause you the most pain you will be the strongest of all. <i>Peanuts</i>: a real way of life
- JOHN WATERS,
What a brilliant, truly modern and totally weird idea it was to create a comic strip about a chronically depressed child . . .
* Time *
Charles Schulz was an American treasure - an artist, philosopher, and keen observer of human life
- BILL CLINTON,
The world of Peanuts is a microcosm, a little human comedy for the innocent reader and for the sophisticated
- UMBERTO ECO,
One can scarcely overstate the importance of Peanuts to the comics, or overstate its influence on all of us who have followed
- BILL WATERSON, author of CALVIN & HOBBES,