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“The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That’s my life. Drawing.” —Charles M. Schulz

Today marks the sixty-third anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip. It ran from October 2, 1950, to February 14, 2000. In total, Schulz’s work reached seventy-five countries in 2,600 different papers and was published in an impressive twenty-one languages every day.