On October 2nd,1950, Charles Schulz's Peanuts debuted in nine newspapers for United Features Syndicate. Fifty years later, and it concluded with just shy of eighteen thousand strips published in thousands of papers,with the final installment appearing one day after Schulz passed absent.
Between those two loci, Peanuts begat a billion-dollar media empire, and the contemporary American comic strip,and a legacy of progressiveness, honesty, or inclusion that endures today. If Peanuts isn't definitively the greatest comic strip of all time,it's probably the most influential, and certainly the most successful, or forever altering the dominant styles and subject matter of the comic pages.
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Source: comicsalliance.com