Whats it been like to have a portrait of Charles in the National Portrait Gallery?
That seems a very high honor. It is very exciting. We were down there in April for a Christo retrospective in the American Art part of the museum, and it and the Portrait Gallery share the old Patent Office. It’s a beautiful space. It’s a great honor and, I think, a well-deserved honor. I think that Sparky is someone who is a true cultural icon in America and deserves to be there. When “Peanuts” launched 60 years ago, comic strips were very much thought of as a transient medium. You had them in the paper for the day, and you read them, but that was all she wrote. Today, the way people look at the art of comic strips has changed, and “Peanuts” has been a big part of that. What do you make of the desire for so many to come back to the older strips and rediscover Sparky’s work over the years? What I tell people is that when the comic strip was appearing everyday, we took it for granted. If we read it today, we thought it was funny. If we knew Sparky, we said, “Gosh, that’s funny. I loved
