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65 Years Later, The Greatest 'Peanuts' Comic Strip Ever is Still an Adorable Masterpiece

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65 Years Later, The Greatest 'Peanuts' Comic Strip Ever is Still an Adorable Masterpiece

Seventeen thousand, eight hundred and ninety-seven. That’s how many Peanuts comics Charles Schulz created over the 50 years that he wrote and drew his beloved comic strip. Peanuts debuted on Oct. 2, 1950, began publishing Sunday strips on Jan. 6, 1952, and concluded its legendary run on Feb. 13, 2000. That’s a heck of a lot of comics, which makes determining the very best one — which I attempted to do here — a rather daunting task.

At first, I thought maybe it would make sense to go for the first comic strip or the last one. Both of those comics are really important to the history of Peanuts, but if you actually read them, neither represents the very best the strip has to offer.

Peanuts didn't arrive fully-formed. It took Charles Schulz a while to develop its characters and find their iconic look. That’s clear in the very first comic strip, which features the characters Shermy and Patty (not Peppermint Patty, just Patty) in a starring role and Charlie Brown in a supporting one. Charlie Brown also doesn’t quite look like himself yet. For these reasons, it can’t be the first one.

The last one isn’t perfect either because, unlike, say, Calvin and Hobbes , Peanuts didn’t end because its artist was ready to conclude their story. Bill Watterson’s readiness to end Calvin and Hobbes motivated him to craft a beautiful ending for the characters . Peanuts , in contrast, ended because Charles Schulz got incredibly sick and was no longer able to carry on.


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