THAT PEANUT it was the world’s most famous comic strip, published daily between 1950 and 2000, when its author Charles Schulz died at the age of 77. Even today, replicas of the strip are distributed and published daily in newspapers in many countries around the world: in Italy, by the Post. The popularity and influence of the strip – and its most famous characters, especially Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus – has extended over time to all media and everyday life in half the world, through their characters, their jokes, their root customs, and a large number of highly effective aphorisms and quotes. The frustrations, insecurities, illusions and anxieties that child characters have always reflect those of adult readers, plus a childish tenderness that always fascinates child readers: building success among very different generations over time. The name Peanuts was chosen by the strip’s distributor citing the television show’s child audience at the time, and it has always been said that Schulz did not like it. But as Lucy Van Pelt says, “the older you get, the less sure you are about things.”
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