What is the Peanuts Comic Strip?
In the early 1950’s, Charles M. Schulz created the unlikely hero of small-town America. The young boy’s name was Charlie Brown and he was featured in the Peanuts comic strip that Schulz drew for newspapers across the country for half a century. The Peanuts comic strip was perhaps the most successful of its kind and launched Charlie Brown into the national spotlight as lovable loser growing up in an American neighborhood with his group of energetic and often philosophical friends. The Peanuts comic strip ran from 1950 until 2000, ceasing only after Schulz’s death. As the Peanuts comic strip gained in popularity, Schulz began infusing his cartoons with social commentary. No topic seemed off-limits, as Charlie Brown and his friends discussed everything from politics to religion, to dress codes and the state of education. In the mid-1960’s, the Peanuts comic strip took on new life as an animated television special, A Charlie Brown Christmas. It was in this cartoon that Charlie Brown’s frie
