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''Li'l Folks'', the first comic strip by ''Peanuts'' creator Charles M. Schulz, was a weekly panel that appeared mainly in Schulz's hometown paper, the ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'', from June 22, 1947 to January 22, 1950. Schulz's first regular cartoon, ''Li'l Folks'' can almost be regarded as an embryonic version of ''Peanuts'', containing characters and themes which were to reappear in the later strip: a well-dressed young man with a fondness for Beethoven, à la Schroeder; a dog with a striking resemblance to Snoopy; and a boy named Charlie Brown.〔("Charles M. Schulz: ''Li'l Beginnings''" )〕 == Publication history == Schulz was 24 at the time he drew ''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 examples of ''L'il Folks'' ran 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. 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 the United Feature Syndicate with ''Li'l Folks'', and the syndicate became interested. However, by that time Schulz had also developed a comic strip (also called ''Li'l Folks''), typically using four panels rather than one. The strip was similar in spirit to the panel comic, but it had a set cast of characters, rather than different nameless little folk for each page. To Schulz's delight, the syndicate preferred 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 settled on 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Li'l Folks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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