![]() The arrival of The Peanuts Movie this fall breathes new life into the phrase over my dead body-starting with the movie’s title. ![]() Robert Thompson, a scholar of popular culture, called it “arguably the longest story told by a single artist in human history.” Hours later, his last Sunday strip came out with a farewell: “Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy … How can I ever forget them.” By then, Peanuts was carried by more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries and read by some 300 million people. ![]() On February 12, 2000, Charles Schulz-who had single-handedly drawn some 18,000 Peanuts comic strips, who refused to use assistants to ink or letter his comics, who vowed that after he quit, no new Peanuts strips would be made-died, taking to the grave, it seemed, any further adventures of the gang. ![]()
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