26 Years Later, Charles Schulz' Final Comic Strip Is Still an All-Time Peanuts Classic

Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, produced a comic strip titled Li’l Folks prior to the launch of Peanuts in 1950. Li’l Folks, which ran in Minnesota’s St. Paul Pioneer Press from 1947 to 1950, featured young children in a similar vein to Peanuts, but it did not have a consistent cast of characters. Schulz left Li’l Folks after his editor declined to provide him with a salary increase.

United Feature Syndicate later purchased Li’l Folks, but the name had to be changed due to a 1930s comic strip named Little Folks. The syndicator chose "Peanuts" because it was inspired by The Howdy Doody Show, where children in the studio audience were known as the "Peanut gallery."

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