Please enjoy this excerpt from Gary Groth's Charles M. Schulz interview, which ran in The Comics Journal #200, December 1997. He loved comics and read them the way some men read box scores or racing forms — with intensity and devotion. Frank Weing, my fellow instructor at Art Instruction, said, 'Sparky, I think you should draw more of those little kids. [laughs] I didn't know he had even thought about it. And I was also drawing comic strips of my own.