Over at this link on Cartoon Brew, Monte Schulz says…
It seems as if my essay and the others will appear in the April issue of The Comics Journal. I hope you will all find my 36,000 words to be both informative and entertaining! And I hope to never have to write about the biography again! I think it’s a decent essay. It offers a lot of information, and it is not a re-hashing of what I’ve written on here. It’s all new.
So the issue of TCJ coming out in April is the one to get. We’ll be on the lookout, for sure. And just a little while ago, Monte added this comment…
Actually, Bill Melendez adored my father and could not have cared less whether Dad drank or not. That’s just another example of something David wrote that was either false or misleading. Bill and my dad were truly great friends and Bill is distressed over some of things David quotes him as saying in that book. In any case, had you ever seen my dad and Bill Melendez, you’d have known how fond they were of each other, and of Lee Mendelson, too. They made a great team back then.
If you haven’t read the David Michaelis biography Schulz and Peanuts, and you’d like to flip through the book at a store just to get a sense of what Monte is talking about, give page 384 a try. Read to the end of the last complete paragraph on page 385. Posthumous psychoanalysis.