The Essential Peanuts' offers fans of the classic comic strip a look at the life, art and legacy of Charles M. Schulz. The book drops this October, and PEOPLE has an early look inside

The iconic "Peanuts" comic strip turns 65 years old today. Here are seven things you didn't know about Charlie Brown and the iconic comic strip.

To save you the trouble of having to look them up, the daily comics/cartoons that we run include Dennis the Menace, Non Sequitur, Peanuts, Zits, B.C., Wizard of Id, Hagar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey, Garfield, For Better or For Worse, Classic Doonesbury.

Newborns at West Penn Hospital were dressed up as "Peanuts" characters to celebrate the comic strip's 75th anniversary.

Ben Folds is "Rockin' the Suburbs" for your kids these days as Charlie Brown's main songwriter (all due respect here to composer Jeff Morrow).

The Snoopy balloon makes its way through Columbus Circle during the 80th Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

Peanuts is home to many iconic characters, but the iconic comic strip was also home to some characters that didn’t have quite the same staying power.