What is the name of Charles M. Schulz’s first comic strip?
For nearly 50 years, Charles M. Schulz turned out strip after strip about Charlie Brown never quite kicking that football, Snoopy's escapades in the sky, and Lucy's brutally honest advice booth. By the time he retired in 1999, the strip was running in over 2,600 newspapers worldwide. Before "Peanuts" made him the most successful cartoonist in history, what was the name of Schulz's first comic strip?
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Correct Answer: Li'l Folks
(Source)Schulz started drawing for his local paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press, in 1947 and earned about $10 per cartoon. "Li'l Folks" featured little kids making observations like little adults. Over time, he started recycling a few elements like the name Charlie Brown, a piano-playing kid obsessed with Beethoven, and a floppy-eared dog that looked an awful lot like Snoopy. After Schulz was denied both a raise and a move to the comics section, he quit the paper and redeveloped the single-panel cartoons into a four-panel strip with recurring characters. He sold it to United Feature Syndicate, which renamed it "Peanuts," a title Schulz actually hated.
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