Comic Strips Ended in the 2000s - Peanuts, Modesty Blaise, Motley's Crew, Opus, Bringing Up Father, Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, Tumbleweeds (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Peanuts, Modesty Blaise, Motley's Crew, Opus, Bringing Up Father, Steve Roper and Mike Nomad, Tumbleweeds, Out of the Gene Pool, The Adventures of Nero, Boner's Ark, Theophilus, Miss Peach, They'll Do It Every Time, Modesty Blaise Quarterly, Rugrats, Franklin Fibbs, Committed, Triple Take, Trudy. Excerpt: Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000 (the day after Schulz's death), continuing in reruns afterward. The strip is considered to be one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being," according to Professor Robert Thompson of Syracuse University. At its peak, Peanuts ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in many newspapers. Peanuts achieved considerable success for its television specials, several of which, including A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown won or were nominated for Emmy Awards. The holiday specials remain quite popular and are currently broadcast on ABC in the United States during the corresponding season. The property is also a landmark in theatre with the stage musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown being an extremely successful and often-performed production. It has been described as "the most shining example of the American success story in the comic strip field," ironically based on the theme of "the great American unsuccess story," since the ...