Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang

📷: Schulz, 1999. Photo by Holger Keifel.

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Planned and created weeks in advance, the strip served as a bittersweet farewell—just hours before its publication, Charles M. Schulz died peacefully at his home in Santa Rosa, California, at the age of 77.⁠

💛 His legacy lives on through his fans and the universal love of Peanuts.⁠

Today marks 26 years since the final Peanuts Sunday comic strip, seen here, appeared in newspapers on February 13, 2000.⁠

Schulz prided himself on answering his telephone and making himself available to talk with the public and the press, as seen in this series of 1969 photographs (photographer: Tom Vano). © Charles M. Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa, CA

“It’s hard for people to comprehend that someone can be born a cartoonist, but I believe I was … It’s my life.”⁠
Charles Monroe “Sparky” Schulz⁠
November 26, 1922–February 12, 2000⁠

In his lifetime, Schulz created 17,897 Peanuts comic strips. His memory lives on in the laughter, cheer, and comfort his characters bring to fans of all ages each day

In memory of Charles M. Schulz, creator of Snoopy and the Peanuts gang, who passed away 26 years ago today, hours before his final Peanuts Sunday comic strip ran in newspapers around the world.⁠ 💛

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on February 11, 1995.

Emily's Debut!

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on February 10, 1984.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on February 9, 1962.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on February 6, 1978.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on February 5, 1985.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on February 4, 1969.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on February 3, 1967.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on February 2, 1985.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 28, 1972.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 27, 1966.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 26, 1955.

You can vote daily through February 9, no matter where you are in the world. Thank you to our community of Peanuts fans who make the Schulz Museum so special! 💛

We’re honored to be a nominee for Best Pop Culture Museum by USA TODAY! 🎉

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This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 22, 1990.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 21, 1971.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 20, 1966.

Letters © Glickman Family Trust and © SFIPT

Glickman suggested that introducing a Black character into Peanuts could help change the "vast sea of misunderstanding, fear, hate, and violence." After correspondence, Schulz felt this was a step he could take authentically and introduced Franklin the summer of 1968, making history in the process.⁠

His story began with a correspondence between Charles Schulz and a Los Angeles schoolteacher named Harriet Glickman, who wrote to Schulz with a request.

🧡 In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we share this Peanuts comic strip from January 18, 1993.⁠
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Franklin, the calm, cool, and collected Peanuts character, was introduced shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in April 1968.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 16, 1980.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 15, 1953.

This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on January 14, 1988.