Biographies: Charles M. Schulz - Writer

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An American novelist and cartoonist who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The St. Paul Pioneer Press ran Li'l Folks, his first regularly scheduled cartoon series, from 1947 until 1950. Charlie Brown was the name he gave it at first, after one of the cartoon characters in it. However, he used the same name for four other boys in comic strips, plus another character that never developed. In this series, there was also a character that looked like a dog, striking a resemblance to Snoopy. He sold The Saturday Evening Post his first one-panel picture in May 1948. Over the course of the following two years, The Post published 17 of Schulz's unnamed paintings. He attempted, at about the same time, to syndicate Li'l Folks through the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, which was unheard of in the 1940s, but the arrangement fell through. In January 1950, Li'l Folks was removed from the Pioneer Press.

• 11 February 2024
• Salma El-Sharkawy