Born in Minneapolis in 1922, cartoonist Charles Schultz was drawing single panels for The Saturday Evening Post when, in 1950, he started making the newspaper-syndicate rounds in hopes of selling a daily children's strip which he wanted to call Li'l Folks. United Feature Syndicate liked the strip but not the name; over Schultz' heated protestations, the strip debuted as Peanuts on October 2, 1950...
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