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Level 2 – Pre-intermediate
The end of Peanuts
The first Peanuts comic strip appeared on 2 October 1950. From then on it appeared in over 2,500 newspapers in 68 countries. More than 350 million readers around the world are familiar with its characters Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and the dog Snoopy. Charles Schulz worked every day and he drew all the cartoons himself. The hero of this strip is the kid-character Charlie Brown. He is not the typical American hero at all; he is the great American loser. He is no good at baseball and he isn't very successful in love! People like him because they can identify with him.
There will be no more new Peanuts cartoons, because Charles M. Schulz died on 12th February 2000 at the age of 77, and no other artist has the right to draw the strips. The very last Peanuts strip appeared in an American newspaper on the day Schulz died. The final cartoon begins with Charlie Brown saying on the phone, "No, I think he's writing." In the next picture, Snoopy is sitting on top of his kennel with his typewriter. The text is a farewell letter from Mr Schulz.
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