I want to be a cartoonist, and I wrote a fan letter to Charles.

Schulz sent him some of my cartoons.

He wrote back the most wonderful and personal letter, not a form letter.

It was really a letter from him.

And he was encouraging about my cartoons and unsolicited enclosed a original Peanuts daily signed and which, of course, I still treasure to this day.

Fade out.

I'm about 13 years old.

Fade in.

It's 25 years later.

Something like that.

Maybe more.

I'm hired by United Features to fly up to Santa Rosa and interview him for a video that's going to accompany a museum tour for peanuts.

35th anniversary.

So I've never met him before.

My wife was with me.

We're very excited to meet him.

He couldn't have been nicer.

And I told him that story he jumped out of his chair is what we've got to get you something more recent than that and ran over and found a Sunday page and signed a Sunday page toe.

Alison me on Lee.

This time he signed it, Sparky, A sign of friendship, which, of course, icing on the cake.

Yeah, Mhm.