My lifetime hero was Charles M. Schulz who drew "Peanuts."  In fact, I had a subscription to the "Chicago Tribune" because it had other great cartoons and displayed "Peanuts" dailies on a separate page often printing the strip in color.  I purchased the paperback collections and now am buying the complete collection.  Once I even had an original daily, but I sold it to help pay part of the daughters' college tuition.  Schulz drew on an illustration board rather than the Strathmore the majority of cartoonists utilized.  I consider him the best cartoonist the U.S.A. had ever produced.