Walter Louis "Walt" Ditzen (August 8, 1913 – March 4, 1973) was an

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. Ditzen drew the "Fan Fare" cartoon strip. ''Fan Fare'' was launched in 1947 (syndicated by the John F. Dille Co.) running until 1961, when it changed title to ''Fun Fare'', running until 1973. Ditzen helped and advised

Charles Schulz Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz ( ; November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was an American cartoonist, the creator of the comic strip ''Peanuts'' which features his two best-known characters, Charlie Brown and Snoopy. He is widely regarded as ...

on the early samples of

Charlie Brown Charles "Charlie" Brown is the Protagonist, principal character of the comic strip ''Peanuts'', syndicated in daily newspaper, daily and Sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world. Depicted as a "lovable loser", Charlie Brown ...

.Schulz, Charles M. ''My Life with Charlie Brown'' (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), p. 32: "In all the articles that have been written about Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the other things we have been doing, none of the writers has ever mentioned that the one cartoonist who helped most was Walt Ditzen. When he was working for one of the syndicates in Chicago, I dropped in with a batch of samples and he went far out of his way that day and later to give me advice and help that I badly needed. I have always regretted that Walt never got any credit for this where people could hear about it."

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