Author photo of Michael Cavna

Michael Cavna

Writer-artist Michael Cavna wrote the foreword to the Peanuts book Celebrating Snoopy. He is a four-time Eisner Award finalist and the first emcee and co-programmer of the Library of Congress/National Book Festival's Graphic Novel Pavilion. Creator of The Washington Post's "Comic Riffs' column — which has been honored by the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, the National Headliner Awards and the Society for Features Journalism — Cavna is currently an M.A. candidate at Johns Hopkins University. "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz once told Cavna at a black-tie awards dinner: "You do funny things"; to this day, he does not know for sure whether Schulz was referring to Cavna's syndicated comic "Warped" (Andrews McMeel/GoComics.com) or to his tragically askew cummerbund.

By this Author

When planning "A Charlie Brown Christmas" in 1965, "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz made the decision to quote Scripture in his script despite hesitance and concern from his team. (© Peanuts Worldwide)

Charles Schulz and the creative faith in the making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'

"A Charlie Brown Christmas" is one of our nation's most beloved seasonal traditions. Experts weigh in on what it took for Charles M. Schulz to keep the Gospel reading in the script — and why it matters that he did.

Advertisement