The Charlie Brown comics are officially known as the Peanuts strip, and the reason for it is somewhat bizarre, which is why Charles Schultz hated it.

He is an outcast, a loser. He is grim, often demoralized and sometimes downright sad. He mourns every lost game and openly ...

Schulz introduced Snoopy in the Peanuts comics in 1950 ... began writing and drawing Peanuts as a daily cartoon strip in 1950, starring a boy named Charlie Brown. In the third-ever strip, readers ...