Final Peanuts Comic - by Charles Schulz for February 13, 2000

So here it ended…we’ll all miss Charlie Brown and his gang.

I have read through the entire nearly 50 years of Peanuts. Now, I’m going to start all over again!

Shultz died the very next day – If he had lasted 8 more months (to October 2), Peanuts would’ve ran unsyndicated for 50 years – how tragic

God bless Charles M. Schulz.

Thus ends a tradition. Sparky died the day before this strip ran, so this strip ran with his obituary:

Charles Monroe Schultz1922-11-26 —— 2000-02-12

He will be missed.

For those wanting to reread the strip from the beginning, one can find the first strip here:

http://gocomics.com/peanuts/1950/10/02

Many fans like to read strips from the beginning. GoComics.Com should have a button taking people to the first of each strip. As it is, if one wishes to start reading from the beginning, one must luckup the startdate on WikiPedia.Org and enter that date into the URL.

i love you charles m shulz

Rest in Peace, Mr. Schulz.

R.I.P. Mr Shulz, we’ll never forget Peanuts, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy and Linus. …<3

If you start over at the beginning and read each month of this strip every day, it would take you around 19 months to finish it! Quite a legacy there

nobody will forget Peanuts, R.I.P. Mr. C.M.Schulz

R.I.P. Charles Monore Schulz 11/26/22 – 2/12/00. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

That is true :]

The greatest comic strip of all time.

good bye

This is the final “Peanuts” comic strip. It was published the day after Charles Schulz died. Due to his wishes, the comic strip reran in newspapers after the publication of this strip. I’m glad the end of “Peanuts” did not resolve any character traits. I’m glad Charlie Brown did not finally meet the Little Red-Haired Girl, kick the football from Lucy, or keep his kite in the air. I’m glad Linus did not outgrow his blanket. I’m glad Miss Othmar never appeared. Instead, this strip reminds us of how great “Peanuts” was. Even though the strip ended, we can still enjoy the strip while we can also decide ourselves on what the Little-Red Haired Girl looks like, if the Great Pumpkin actually exists, or if Charlie Brown will kick the football. You’re a good boy, Charlie Brown. You’re a good dog, Snoopy. You’re a good man, Charles Schulz.

yay! this is the first time I have ever commented on a peanuts strip!

this is a sad strip since this was his last strip before he died. :,(

We miss you Mr. Schultz

Sigh…50 years. Peanuts was such a special part of my childhood. But it doesn’t end here. Mr.Schultz work will live on forever

Strange — Schroeder playing the piano didn’t make the cut.

Charlie Brown didn’t even get to kick the football…

Speaking of does anyone have any ideas for what Fantagraphics should put in the remainder of the last volume of “The Complete Peanuts”?

R.I.P. Charles!

No one has ever touched as many people as Charles Schulz did with PEANUTS. God bless his memory.

I still believe Sparky keeps on drawing daily strips in his new atelier located in Heavens Lane :)

He is still the best author ever!

My Hero…

Sob I will miss him. He was my hero.

Fare thee well

Good-Bye. sniff

God Bless Charles M. Schulz

With Sparky’s passing, Peanuts came to an end. But his legacy lives on and the strips are rerun in newspapers around the world.

If he lasted to November, the football would be kicked, as in 1 strip it said "November, sure! In the year, 2000!

(singing) “Just when you think that you know where you stand,You’ve got the world in your hand…Just when you’re sure of a dream that you planned.That’s when the scenery changes… It changes…”

Did he like know that he would die so he wrote this Feb 12?

I still miss him….

Thank you Mr Schulz, God bless you! I see that kite flying high in the distance and it is not going down, ever again!!

God rest T-T I miss you

The comic is older than my grandmother herself. She was born in 1952. Nearly made it 50 years. This is the greatest comic strip of all time. Rest In Peace Charles.

R.I.P Charles M. Schulz. Thank you for bringing joy with your comics. I am sorry to say though but Go Comics is repeating the comics against your will :(. God Bless you, Schulz

The comic strip was the embodiment of peanuts itself, but even if it’s long gone like our dearly beloved Schulz, Charlie Brown and the gang are still going on strong, and are continuing to be here to stay forever.

It lives on in our hearts.

Schulz died at his home on February 12, 2000 at the age of 77, of colon cancer. The last original Peanuts strip was published the next day, Sunday, February 13. Schulz had predicted that the strip would outlive him because the strips were usually drawn weeks before their publication. Schulz was buried at Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Sebastopol, California.

As part of his contract with the syndicate, Schulz requested that no other artist be allowed to draw Peanuts. United Features had legal ownership of the strip, but honored his wishes, instead syndicating reruns to newspapers. New television specials have also been produced since Schulz’s death, with the stories based on previous strips; Schulz always said the TV shows were entirely separate from the strip.

Schulz was honored on May 27, 2000, by cartoonists of more than 100 comic strips, who paid homage to him and Peanuts by incorporating his characters into their strips that day.

sniff, goodbye Peanuts. You will be greatly missed by all comics on this website

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!

Rest in Peace man, we will all miss you on GoComics…

This is it, it’s the end!

Just realized that on October 2nd 2019 Peanuts became 69 years old

Mr. Schulz, you were and are the greatest!

Garfield is ON HIS WAY to becoming the LONGEST REIGNING COMIC STRIP! THREE CHEERS FOR GARFIELD!

Its enough to make a grown man cry, and thats okay.

rest in peace Charles Monroe Shultz. 1922-11-26 – 2000-02-12. forever in our hearts and newspapers.

R.I.P. The world shall pay their tribute.

Rest in peace, Mr. Schulz, and thanks again for everything. <3

Read all the tribute strips. They will make you tear up.

This is depressing tbh.

I just realized no one actually smiles in this strip.

I wish Charlie Brown would finally kick that stupid football

sigh Poor Jeanie… her husband passed away two days before Valentine’s Day…

Good ol’ Charles Schulz! Thank you, Sparky, for the wonderful creation you brought into this world! Peanuts shall be loved forever!Also, many cartoonists did a tribute to Sparky on the 27th of May of the same year, featuring the characters from Peanuts in their strips. Comics who did a tribute include Big Nate, Garfield, and even Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

I’M ABOUT TO CRY WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rip

time to call in a necromancer to keep schulz alive to make more comics.

RIP

I cried while seeing this

I won’t cry… I won’t cry… I won’t cry… I won’t cry…

What a legacy… Shultz wrote and drew 17,889 comic strips. He did them all by himself for nearly 50 years. There are so many questions we still have: Did Charlie Brown kick the football? Did the Little-Red Haired girl ever fall in love with Charlie Brown? Did Lucy ever give helpful advice? Did Linus ever part from his blanket? Did Snoopy ever catch the Red Baron. We as the readers are deeply grieved at the end of the strip, but it will forever remain in the hearts of millions of Peanuts readers. So let’s be like Snoopy, who would be happy for the strip Shultz gave us.

May Schulz rest in peace.

when i saw this almost 22 years ago part of me died inside

in those, we honor, in those we love, in those we respect, May Schultz live his legacy in one of the most famous and iconic comics in the world. as for the next generation, they can see these comics as a gateway into the past of comics back then. in those, we remember: Amen.

If you look at some of the previous strips, you will see reruns. It really ended on January 3rd, 2000. Peanuts is a great comic strip, and we will all miss it.

When we had our newspaper delivered to our house, we would always get the Sunday comics on Saturday. So I was able to see this strip the day I heard the news that Sparky died. When I got that news, I cried and cried, because I felt like I lost a great friend, because I was, and still am, a huge fan of Peanuts. Sparky could never forget Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the entire Peanuts gang, and we will make sure that they will never be forgotten. You were a good man, Charles Schulz. We miss you, Sparky. RIP

“Lo, there do I see Schulz. Lo, there do I see my strips, and my wholesome moments, and my laughter. Lo, there do I see the line of newspaper comic strips, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me. They bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Comhalla, where the great artists may live forever.”

This is the most depressing Sunday comic I have ever read…

Has brought me happiness my entire life.

What!!?

What a wonderful cartoon strip and such memorable characters! It appealed to me as a child and as an adult!