Peanuts is 67 years old today! 🎉 On October 2, 1950, the first Peanuts comic strip debuted in a four-panel format in seven newspapers nationwide – The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Allentown Call-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, The Denver Post, and The Seattle Times. The strip is also the first appearance of Charlie Brown, Patty, and Shermy. In the five decades that Schulz dedicated himself to Peanuts, the physical appearance of the Gang naturally

𝐀 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬: 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 It's known as the most magical two minutes in TV animation. When “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was produced for television in 1965, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had one specific, but important directive. That the program be about something. Namely, he insisted, it be about the true spirit of Christmas. Otherwise, he said, “Why bother? Of course, as we know now, Schu