Schroeder (Peanuts) Schroeder (Peanuts) Schroeder is a fictional character in the long-running comic strip "Peanuts", created by Charles M. Schulz. He is distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as by his love of classical music and the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in particular. Schroeder is also the catcher on Charlie Brown's baseball team, though he is always seen walking back to the pitcher's mound with the baseball, never throwing it—admitting in one strip he did not want the other team to discover his lack of ability. He is also the object of the unrequited infatuation of
The Complete Peanuts titled "Peanuts Every Sunday", collecting only the Sunday strips of the "Peanuts" series, was launched by Fantagraphics in 2013 and is scheduled to run until 2022. Schulz began to discuss an anthology of his work with Fantagraphics Books in 1997. The idea of a complete compendium of all published "Peanuts" strips was long resisted by Schulz; he did not want some early strips reprinted as he felt they were not as good as the ones he drew later in his career. Approximately 2,000 of the 17,897 strips had never appeared in a previous U.S. collection. The first book in the