No. ..Charles M. Schulz , the artist and creator of the comic strip "Peanuts" , died , of complication from Colon Cancer at age 77 on Febuary 12 , 2000 in Santa Rosa , Califor
…nia , at 9:45 pm. ..His last interview was on The Today Show back in 1999 ; and he was quoted as saying to Al Roker : "I never dreamed that this would happen to me. I always had the feeling that I would stay with the strip until I was in my early eighties , or something like that. I did not take it away. This has been taking away from me." ..Mr. Schulz was asked if , for his final Peanut strip , Charlie Brown would finally get to kick that football after so many decades . His response was , "Oh , no ! Definitely not ! I couldn't have Charlie Brown kick that football ; that would be a terrible disservice to him after nearly half the century." ..Charles M. Schulz is buried at Sebastopol's Pleasant Hills Cemetery , and has (I believe) a picture of Snoopy on his headstone . ..Mr. Schulz was inducted into the "United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame" in 2007 , and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. (MORE) 
