Among the National Museum of American History’s trove of “Peanuts”-related paraphernalia are a pen, pencil, brush and artist’s board used by Schulz. An original hand-drawn comic strip, a ...

“Maybe I have the cruelest strip going,” he said. The original strip was published for almost half a century. By 1958, “Peanuts” was published in 355 U.S. newspapers and 40 foreign dailies.