Only What's Necessary

Drawn from the archives of the Charles M. Schulz Museum, an in-depth look at Peanuts with a “wealth of original art” ( The New York Times ). Charles M. Schulz believed that the key to cartooning was to take out the extraneous details and leave in only what’s necessary. For fifty years, from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, Schulz wrote and illustrated Peanuts , the single most popular and influential comic strip in the world. In all, 17,897 strips were published, making it “arguably the lo