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'Peanuts' showed the world through children's eyes | Learn English term 'comic relief'

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Introduction

Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip would have been 100 this year. The world of Peanuts is a world without adults. When grownups are needed in the story, they appear only with speech bubbles or very occasionally with just part of their bodies in the frame. But don't be fooled, Peanuts includes what we might call adult topics,. friendship, loneliness, love, ambition, diversity, happiness, disappointment.

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