![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How valid are these complaints? It’s hard to say. The comments section has become a clearinghouse of complaints against Michaelis and the book … assuming, of course, that these are the actual people and not extremely focused and nerdy pranksters. Since then, Jill has also posted, as well as her sister Amy, the family’s business adviser Barbara Gallagher, and, today, Lee Mendelson, producer of the Peanuts TV specials. Since then, Monte has weighed in again with a long post detailing his complaints, from Michaelis’s factual errors to the cherry-picking of sources and quotes for example, Monte says, Michaelis only met Schulz’s daughter Jill once over a lunch. It started with Schulz’s son Monte, who wrote on October 11: Honestly, the quote I’ve really wanted to give the press, after reading both the early manuscript and the final book, is this: “The book is stupid, and David Michaelis is an idiot.” Now Schulz’s children seem to have taken to the Net to complain, writing long messages in the comment threads at Cartoon Brew, a cartoon and comics Website. Reviewers both distinguished and undistinguished praised the book, mostly disregarding the family’s complaints. At the time, the complaints seemed fairly run-of-the-mill, not atypical gripes from children who idolized their father and were distressed to see a biography with a clear point of view on the shelves. ![]() Shortly before David Michaelis’s biography of Charles Schulz, Schulz and Peanuts, was published this month, the Times ran a piece about the Schulz family’s dissatisfaction with the book. ![]()
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