Today is National Peanut Day believed to have been first celebrated in the early 1990s. The first time it was chronicalized on a calendar though was in 1994. While the nut is well loved especially by those within the United States, this website, and more specifically this section of it focuses on Comic Books. So with that in mind, we are delving into the world of Peanuts. Not to be confused with the edible legume, Peanuts is a comic strip featuring the characters of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Franklin, Lucy Van Pelt, Linus Van Pelt, Peppermint Patty, and Sally Brown created by Charles M. Schulz.
The strip started in daily comics on October 2, 1950 and then being showcased on Sundays on January 6, 1952. While the strip concluded its run in 2000, the comic continues being reprinted as re-runs in newspapers all over the USA to this day.
In the history of the comic strip there were 17,897 strips published. Shulz passed away in 2000 with a readership of over 355 million.
Over the years the comic strip has been adapted in some of the most influential animated movies that have reached so many generations.
Prior to Peanuts, Shulz comic aired as Li’l Folks in his local St. Paul Pioneer Press for three years (1947-1950). The name Peanuts was forced on Shulz when he began publishing due to trademark issues. The name was taken from the children audience of Howdy Doody, called the “Peanuts Gallery.”
The final Sunday strip aired on February 13, 2000. While he had stopped drawing the strip in January earlier that year, he had pre-drawn several Sunday strips that lasted until the day after the death of Charles M. Schulz. No new or continuation of the Peanuts comics followed. It was Schulz wish for the series to end upon his retirement, and while the series continues in re-run in publications the comics are all older reprinted versions.
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