" Mello Jello" is now available, as is "I Can't Believe My Eyes." Tom Everhart is the only artist with full creative rights to the "Peanuts" characters created by Charles Schulz (1922 –2000). In 1980 Tom graduated from the School of Art and Architecture at Yale University. He got a freelance job drawing renderings of Schulz's characters. Everhart began working with "Peanuts" imagery exclusively. In 1980, he was introduced to cartoonist Charles Schulz at Schulz's studios in Santa Rosa, Calif. A few weeks prior to their meeting, Everhart, having no education in cartooning, found himself involved in a freelance project that required him to draw and present Peanuts renderings to Schulz's studios. Preparing as he would the drawings and studies for his large-scale skeleton / nature related paintings; he blew up the cartoonist's strips on a 25-foot wall in his studio which eliminated the perimeter lines of the cartoon box, leaving only the marks of the cartoonist.