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Posted by / February 27, 2013

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Peanuts cartoon strip made its debut on October 2 in 1950 with the last one appearing January 3, 2000, weathering lots of competition over the years from strips such as Calvin and Hobbes. Overall, Peanuts maintained its popularity and near-top rankings, with author Charles Schulz winning many awards. When he retired, he asked that his characters be retired also. He died shortly after the last strip appeared.

Charlie Brown is the only character to have appeared in both first and last strips.

From Wikipedia:

Peanuts is regarded as one of the most influential and well-written comic strips of all time. Schulz received the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for Peanuts in 1962, the Reuben Award in 1955 and 1964 (the first cartoonist to receive the honor twice), the Elzie Segar Award in 1980, and the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. A Charlie Brown Christmas won a Peabody Award and an Emmy; Peanuts cartoon specials have received a total of two Peabody Awards and four Emmys. For his work on the strip, Charles Schulz is credited with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a place in the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame.

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