Source: Good News Network
68 years ago today, Peanuts, the American comic strip by Charles Schulz, was first published. Schulz drew the comic every day for 50 years—producing an astonishing 17,897 episodes. With a readership of around 355 million in 75 countries, it was translated into 21 languages, earning the artist more than $1 billion with merchandise sales.
The astutely philosophical strip focused entirely on a social circle of young children revolving around the main character, Charlie Brown. Meek and lacking self-confidence, he is unable to fly a kite, win a baseball game, or kick a football—because it was always held by his bossy friend Lucy, who pulled it away at the last instant. (1950)
The popular Peanuts television specials, A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown won or were nominated for Emmy Awards. and are still broadcast every year to this day.
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