Charles Schulz wasn't the first cartoonist to draw little kids talking like adults, but he was the first to use a daily comic strip to locate and express the peculiar neuroses of childhood. The cast ...

No one, least of all the strip’s creator, could have known that it would become one of the most successful comics ever, eventually appearing in more than 2,500 papers in 75 countries, or that it would ...

US President Barack Obama has outed himself as a fan of comic books as he honored Charlie Brown and Snoopy at the release of "The Complete Peanuts," the 25th and final edition of the iconic series.

This second thick volume in The Complete Peanuts makes for a delicious wallow in a nostalgic world that has a lot more bite than readers may recall. Although some feel that Schulz's later work assumed ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The first of a 25-volume series reprinting the entire Peanuts comic strip has just been published. We feature an interview with the creator Charles Schulz (who died in 2000) just before his final ...

As a follow-up to a Peanuts post the other week, I should note that the syndicate has made all the Peanuts strips available online, though they haven’t really publicized it much. There’s no search ...

There's not a cartoonist alive today that doesn't owe a tremendous debt to Charles Schultz. Though there were some notable funny page giants before him -- people like Winsor McKay, Hal Foster and ...

As the modern-day American newspaper comic strip slowly chokes to death, done in by shrinking spaces and exhausted franchises, its more vibrant ancestors are living in renewed luxury. Comic strips are ...

With its ambitious plan to reprint all of "Peanuts" in chronological order over the next 12 years, Fantagraphics is making this comics masterpiece available for everyone. The real surprise of this ...