Charlie Brown

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. The comic strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all,[1] making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".[2] At its peak in the mid- to late 1960s, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.[3] It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States,[4] and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.[1] Peanuts The Peanuts gang Top row left to right: Woodstock, Snoopy, Charlie Brown Bottom row left to right: Franklin, Lucy van Pelt, Linus van Pelt, Peppermint Patty, Sally Brown Author(s) Charles M. Schulz Website www.peanuts.com Current status / schedule Concluded, in reruns Launch date October 2, 1950 (dailies), January 6, 1952 (Sundays) End date January 3, 2000 (dailies), February 13, 2000 (Sundays) Syndicate(s) English: United Feature Syndicate (October 2, 1950 – February 26, 2011) Universal Uclick (February 27, 2011 – present) Genre(s) Humor, gag-a-day, satire, children, adults The strip focuses entirely on a social circle of young children, where adults exist but are rarely seen or heard. The main character, Charlie Brown, is meek, nervous, and lacks self-confidence. He is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football held by his irascible friend Lucy, who always pulls it away at the last instant.[5] Peanuts is one of the literate strips with philosophical, psychological, and sociological overtones that flourished in the 1950s.[6] The strip's humor (at least during its '60s peak) is psychologically complex, and the characters