It’s Your 62nd Birthday, Charlie Brown It’s been 62 years since Charlie Brown first stumbled into our hearts and morning paper. The first Peanutscomic, shown above, appeared in nine newspapers on Oct. 2, 1950. By the time the comic ended in 2000, creator Charles Schulz had published 17,897 strips — which continue in reruns to this day.

It’s Your 62nd Birthday, Charlie Brown

It’s been 62 years since Charlie Brown first stumbled into our hearts and morning paper. The first Peanutscomic, shown above, appeared in nine newspapers on Oct. 2, 1950. By the time the comic ended in 2000, creator Charles Schulz had published 17,897 strips — which continue in reruns to this day.