2 October 17

On this date in 1950, Charles Schulz (1922-2000) published the very first Peanuts® cartoon. My tie shows many Peanuts characters with cell phones, which were certainly not around in 1950. In my photo I'm showing the first three strips from the Complete Peanuts Collection; as revealed by these earliest drawings, it took a while for Charles Schulz to develop the trademark zigzag shirt for Charlie Brown and to give Snoopy some personal character.