60 Years Later, the Best 'Peanuts' Quote of All Time Still Doesn't Get the Credit it Deserves

In addition to being sweet and funny, Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip could be profound at time.

The short version

• Unless Woodstock is saying something even more brilliant, though it's hard to tell.
• American cartoonist Charles Schulz died on February 12, 2000, at age 77.
• The next day, the final Peanuts comic strip ran in newspapers, ending the 50-year run of Charlie Brown, Snoopy , and the gang.

What happened

That timing might seem logical — you might assume the comic strip was written and submitted shortly before publication — but Peanuts strips, particularly Sunday ones like this, were done weeks ahead of time, making the timing something of a small coincidence. Schulz had announced his retirement two months earlier due to several strokes and advancing colorectal cancer, and he’d created his last strip shortly after he made the announcement.

Why it matters

While Schulz knew he was dying, he couldn’t have known two months in advance the exact day he would die and that he’d essentially penned his own obituary by having his last comic run just one day after his death.

Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at Polygon via the links above and below.