The document discusses the comic strip Peanuts and its creator Charles Schulz. It describes how Schulz drew the strip for nearly 50 years until his death, ending the last strip the day after he passed away. It discusses how the characters were based on Schulz's own life and reflected adult themes. Peanuts was immensely successful, with a global readership of over 300 million people.

2. "These children affect us because they're monsters. They are the monstrous, infantile reductions of all the neuroses of modern citizens of the industrial civilisation." Umberto Eco describing 'Peanuts'

4. the first strip

19. " His characters were contemplative. They spoke with simplicity and force. They made smart observations about literature, art, classical music, theology, medicine, psychiatry, sports and the law." David Micheaelis of Time Magazine