RAGING wildfire also claimed the home of Peanuts cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, destroying a fortune of his beloved artwork!
Jean Schulz, the 78-year-old widow of the Snoopy creator, safely evacuated the Santa Rosa, Calif., residence on Oct. 9, right before the property was reduced to ash by the wind-driven flflames.
“The things that they lost in there are irreplaceable,” says Monte Schulz, Charles’ son.
Fortunately, most of the beloved artist’s original drawings, photos and letters are housed in the nearby Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, which survived the blaze.
But Monte adds, “There were a lot of Peanuts things in the house.”
Before the comic strip king succumbed to colon cancer in 2000 at 77, Charles turned his characters into a hugely profitable empire, which still rakes in…
