The Final ‘Peanuts’ Comic Strip Became Even More Heartbreaking the Next Day

Charles M. Schulz had numerous options available to him toward the conclusion of Peanuts. After having created more than 17,000 comic strips over the course of nearly half a century, he could have given Charlie Brown a final triumph, let Snoopy prove once again that he is capable of executing another outlandish scheme, or simply made one more joke at the readers' expense. What he eventually chose was to look back.