While the world awaits a potential doomsday, America’s greatest cartoonist prepares his own ending. In more than 2,600 newspapers around the world, a globe-shaking announcement is made and an American icon comes to an end.
Recommended reading: “Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography” by David Michaelis, or the 32-book series of the Peanuts comic strips.
Cited sources:
Schulz bio - https://schulzmuseum.org/about-schulz/schulz-biography/
Schulz bio - https://www.srcity.org/1367/About-Schulz
Y2K - https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/y2k
Dachau - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/dachau
Schulz obit - https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/14/arts/charles-m-schulz-peanuts-creator-dies-at-77.html
Internet usage - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ITNETUSERP2USA
Internet usage - https://www.statista.com/statistics/209117/us-internet-penetration/#:~:text=As%20of%202023%2C%20approximately%2092,internet%20users%20in%20the%20country.
Retirement announced - https://schulzmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Timeline-of-Charles-M-Schulz-and-Peanuts.pdf
Schulz timeline - https://schulzmuseum.org/timeline/#!/2000
