Description

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, ***0, to February *4, ***0, continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is the most popular and influential in the history of the comic strip, with *7,**7 strips published in all,[1] making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being", according to Robert Thompson of Syracuse University.[2] At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,**0 newspapers, with a readership of **5 million in *5 countries, and was translated into *1 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] Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper.