Peanuts 2019 December 2 – The Post

THE Peanuts are the most famous comic strip in the world, published daily between 1950 and 2000, when its author Charles Schulz died at the age of 77. Even today the replicas of the strips are distributed and published every day in the newspapers of dozens of countries in the world: in Italy, from the Post. The popularity and influence of the strip – and its most famous characters, especially Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus – has spread over time to all media and to everyday life around the world, through their characters, their lines, the rooting of their customs, and an extraordinary quantity of highly effective aphorisms and quotations. The frustrations, insecurities, illusions, anxieties, of child characters have always reflected those of adult readers, adding childish tenderness that has always fascinated children readers: building success over time with very different generations. The name Peanuts was chosen by the distributor of the strip citing that of a children's audience on a television show of the time, and it was always said that Schulz did not like it. But as Lucy Van Pelt says, "the older you get, the less certain you are about a lot of things".