The Peanuts is the world’s most famous comic, published daily between 1950 and 2000 when its author Charles Schulz died at the age of 77. Even today, the replicas of the strips are distributed and published daily in the newspapers of dozens of countries around the world: in Italy by the Post Office. The popularity and influence of the strip – and its most famous characters, notably Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus – has spread over time to all media and daily life around the world, through its characters, its jokes, the rooting of its… habits, and an extraordinary amount of highly effective aphorisms and quotes. The frustrations, insecurities, illusions and fears of the children’s characters have always mirrored those of the adult readers, adding to them a childlike tenderness that has always fascinated children’s readers: over time, it built a success with very different generations. The name Peanuts was chosen by the strip’s distributor, citing a children’s audience on a television show of the time, and Schulz was always said to dislike it. But as Lucy Van Pelt says, “The older you get, the less confident you are about many things.”