Peanuts

Peanuts was a syndicated daily comic strip written and drawn by American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, which ran from 2 October 1950 to 13 February 2000. The strip was one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium. more...

At its peak Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 40 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States. Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in many newspapers.

Charles M. Schulz

Born 26 November 1922 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and raised in St. Paul, Schulz lived and worked for over 30 years in Santa Rosa, California. Prior to moving to Santa Rosa, Schulz had had a studio in Sebastopol, California, but it was destroyed by fire in 1966. The Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa celebrates his life's work and art of cartooning. In 2000, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors renamed the "Charles M. Schulz Airport - Sonoma County Airport" in his honor. The airport's amusing logo features Snoopy in goggles and scarf, taking to the skies on top of his red doghouse. A bronze statue of Charlie Brown and Snoopy stands in Depot Park in downtown Santa Rosa.

History

Peanuts had its origin in Li'l Folks, a weekly panel comic that appeared in Schulz's hometown paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, from 1947 to 1949. When his work was picked up by United Features Syndicate, they decided to go for the new comic strip he had been working on. Ironically, Peanuts never appeared in the Pioneer Press, as the rival Minneapolis Star-Tribune had exclusive rights to the strip for its entire run.

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