Li'l Folks

It is recorded as the work of Charles M. Publication is recorded by Minneapolis Tribune and St. The recorded date of publication is 1947. It is associated with United States. The record gives 1947 as its date of establishment or first appearance.

• Title — Li'l Folks • Author — Charles M. Schulz • Status — concluded / weekly • Syndicate — Minneapolis Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press • First — June 22, 1947 • Last — January 22, 1950 • Genre — Humor, Children, Teens, Adults • Followed By — Peanuts

Schulz was 24 at the time he began drawing Li'l Folks, and he was living with his father in a four-bedroom apartment above his father's barber shop. He earned $10 for each submission to the paper. The first two installments of Li'l Folks ran June 8 and 15, 1947, in the Minneapolis Tribune. It then moved to the St. Paul Pioneer Press; Li'l Folks ran in the women's section of the paper. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Li'l Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association (a Scripps Company). He would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. Schulz quit two years into the strip after the editor turned down his requests for a pay increase and a move of Li'l Folks from the women's section to the comics pages. Later that year, Schulz approached United Feature Syndicate (also a Scripps Company) with Li'l Folks, and the syndicate became interested. By this point, Schulz had redeveloped Li'l Folks with a four-panel strip format and a set cast of characters, rather than different nameless children for each page. The syndicate accepted the strip; however, the name Li'l Folks was too close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's Li'l Abner and a strip titled Little Folks. To avoid confusion, the syndicate chose the name Peanuts, after the peanut gallery featured in the Howdy Doody TV show. Peanuts made its first appearance on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers. All of the original Li'l Folks comic strips have fallen into the public domain due to a lack of a copyright notices.

• Illustration — First appearance of a "Charlie Brown" from a May 30, 1948 strip of Li'l Folks. Li'l Folks saw the first use of the name Charlie Brown on May 30, 1948, although Schulz applied the name in four gags to three different boys, as well as one buried in sand, during 1948–1949. One strip also featured a dog named Rover that looked much like Snoopy. Like most of Peanuts, adult characters were not shown in the strip.

Li'l Folks is associated with United States.