Peanuts is beloved by countless readers worldwide for its iconic characters — such as Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and Lucy van Pelt — gentle humor, and emotional resonance. The artist behind Peanuts shares the same name recognition, but among critics and historians, he is far more than a celebrity — he wrote and drew every strip in the newspaper comic's 50 years himself, and it reflects the moral, aesthetic, and intellectual foundations of Schulz's worldview and art. Fantagraphics