This article marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the last printed Peanuts comic strip

Charles M. Schulz's last comic strip, Peanuts , was released on February 13, 2025 .

Schulz ’s real achievement lies not in any single comic strip or character, but in the sheer extent of his fifty-year body of original work.

Between October 1950 and December 1999 , Schulz drew almost 18,000 unique Peanuts episodes.

Charles Schulz’s moral genius emerged, slowly and subtly, alongside his abilities as a master craftsman.

As graphic design, Peanuts initially stood out in the newspaper pages of its era.

Yet daily newspapers are now a fading medium, and the syndicated fillers that ran in their back sections are almost a lost art.