In “When We First Met”, we spotlight the various characters, phrases, objects or events that eventually became notable parts of comic lore. Today, we look at the surprisingly longer than expected time that it took before Snoopy was Charlie Brown’s dog in Peanuts.
Peanuts began life as a series of one-panel comics in 1947 in Charles Schulz’s hometown newspaper in Minnesota called Li’l Folks, one-off gags about little kids. It was successful enough that he got a chance to pitch for a nationally syndicated strip from United Features Syndicate in 1950. Schulz later recalled how this led to a strip name change, “Peanuts was originally sold under the title of Li’l Folks, but that had been used before, so they said we have to think of another title. I couldn’t think of one and somebody at United Features came up with the miserable title Peanuts, which I hate and have always hated. It has no dignity and it’s not descriptive. […] What could I do? Here I was, an unknown kid from St. Paul. I couldn’t think of anything else. I said, why don’t we call it Charlie Brown and the president said ‘Well, we can’t copyright a name like that.’ I didn’t ask them about Nancy or Steve Canyon. I was in no position to argue.”
The very first Peanuts comic strip appeared on October 2, 1950, and obviously, you can tell right off the bat how different this is from “classic” Peanuts comics due to the aggressive humor used in this strip…
In “When We First Met”, we spotlight the various characters, phrases, objects or events that eventually became notable parts of comic lore. Today, we look at the surprisingly longer than expected time that it took before Snoopy was Charlie Brown’s dog in Peanuts.
Peanuts began life as a series of one-panel comics in 1947 in Charles Schulz’s hometown newspaper in Minnesota called Li’l Folks, one-off gags about little kids. It was successful enough that he got a chance to pitch for a nationally syndicated strip from United Features Syndicate in 1950. Schulz later recalled how this led to a strip name change, “Peanuts was originally sold under the title of Li’l Folks, but that had been used before, so they said we have to think of another title. I couldn’t think of one and somebody at United Features came up with the miserable title Peanuts, which I hate and have always hated. It has no dignity and it’s not descriptive. […] What could I do? Here I was, an unknown kid from St. Paul. I couldn’t think of anything else. I said, why don’t we call it Charlie Brown and the president said ‘Well, we can’t copyright a name like that.’ I didn’t ask them about Nancy or Steve Canyon. I was in no position to argue.”
The very first Peanuts comic strip appeared on October 2, 1950, and obviously, you can tell right off the bat how different this is from “classic” Peanuts comics due to the aggressive humor used in this strip…
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