How many Peanuts strips were published in total?

A total of 17,897 Peanuts strips were published.

Charles M. Schulz drew Peanuts from its debut on October 2, 1950, through its final original strip on February 13, 2000. Across that span, the comic became one of the most widely distributed newspaper strips in history while remaining entirely Schulz’s work.

The total includes the strip’s daily and Sunday installments over nearly five decades. It is often confused with the number of years in the run or with the number of collected book volumes. Fantagraphics’ The Complete Peanuts ultimately gathered the newspaper material in a 26-volume publishing project, but 26 is not the number of strips.

The collection also helped reveal how much material had rarely or never appeared in earlier U.S. reprint books. The total of 17,897 is therefore a count of published Peanuts newspaper strips, rather than every sketch, illustration, television adaptation, or piece of merchandise art created by Schulz.