What was it like working with Charles Schulz?
LEE: “It was fabulous. We (Schulz, Mendelson and Melendez) were like three friends. We didn’t have any studio pressure. We would meet once a month. We could come up with any shows we wanted to do because they trusted Sparky and his ideas. It was a ball for 38 years. We never had a single argument in 38 years. “The first time I met him he says, ‘I have a great job, I have very little overhead. I have a piece of paper, a pen and a pencil.’ And that’s what he did. Over 18,000 times, he did the strip. He just wanted the strip to be the best it could. He said: ‘I never want to disappoint my readers.
