On February 12, 2000 (January 8, 2000 in the lunar calendar), Snoopy's "father" Charles Schultz died. Charles Schultz Charles Schultz was born in Minnesota, USA in 1922. He died of intestinal cancer on February 12, 2000 at the age of 77. He began to create a series of Snoopy comics in 1950. In the past 50 years, the tentacles of Snoopy, Charlie Brown and other story characters have extended to 75 countries around the world. They have been published in 2,600 newspapers through 21 translations, as well as 300 million comics and 50 cartoons. It is estimated that 350 million people will laugh together every day. He won the ReubenAward, the highest honor in comic art, twice, was selected as the "International Cartoonist of the Year" in 1978, won the French Medal of Literature and Art in 1990, and has been listed on the list of artists with the highest annual income in Forbes magazine for many times, becoming the richest cartoonist in history.