This article is about the comic strip. For the edible legume, see Peanut. For other uses, see Peanut (disambiguation).

Peanuts (briefly subtitled featuring Good ol' Charlie Brown) is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. Peanuts is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all,making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At the time of Schulz's death in 2000, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of roughly 355 million across 75 countries, and had been translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Following successful animated TV and stage-theatrical adaptations over the years, five animated theatrical films have been released so far, the most recent, movie adaptation, released by Blue Sky Studios in 2015.

The Peanuts gang

Top row left to right: Woodstock, Snoopy, Charlie Brown

Bottom row left to right: Franklin, Lucy Van Pelt, Linus Van Pelt, Peppermint Patty, Sally Brown

Author(s)Charles M. SchulzWebsitewww.peanuts.comCurrent status/scheduleConcluded, in rerunsLaunch date

October 2, 1950 (dailies)

January 6, 1952 (Sundays)

End date

January 3, 2000 (dailies)

February 13, 2000 (Sundays)

Syndicate(s)

United Media, ex-United Feature Syndicate (October 2, 1950 – February 26, 2011)

Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication (February 27, 2011 – present)

Genre(s)Humor, gag-a-day, satire, childrenPreceded byLi'l Folks

Peanuts focuses on a social circle of young children, where adults exist but are rarely seen or heard.