January 3rd

On this day - 3rd January 2000 - The last original Peanuts comic strip

Written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts started running on October 2nd 1950 and lasted until January 3rd 2000. In all,  17,896 strips were made, making it one of the longest stories told by one person. Peanuts is very popular and at its peak popularity it ran in 2,600 newspapers with a combined reader mass of 355 million people, in 75 countries, translated into 21 languages. The recipe has made a standard, a standard for an American comic strip in the papers is four panels. Peanuts focuses on a mini society of children where the main character Charlie Brown, is nervous and lacks self confidence. After almost fifty years the comic and the merchandise is estimated to have earned Schulz more than 1 billion USD. In foreign countries such as Norway, Charlie Brown is not that famous but Snoopy is, and thereby is our favorite Peanuts character. Who is your favorite Peanuts character ? 

The first Peanuts from 1950