With this autumn’s release of David Michaelis’ Schulz and Peanuts, readers are — for the first time — admitted into the melancholy world of cartoonist Charles Schulz. The Peanuts creator spent much of his adult years wrestling with depression and professional malaise.

A walk in the park compared to the life of Schulz’ alter ego, Charlie Brown, as Peanuts might have been envisioned by Charles Bukowski:

He could see she was holding it tight. He was really going to kick the shit out of that old football! He threw his leg forward with all his might and Lucy yanked the football away just as he kicked at it. He landed on his ass again.

“AUUUGGGGHHH,” he said again.

Lucy laughed and laughed and left with the football. Charlie laid there and groaned. Good grief, he thought. What a cunt.

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