Editing Li'l Folks (section)

== Publication history ==
Schulz was 24 at the time he began drawing ''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 installments of ''Li'l Folks'' ran June 8 and 15, 1947, in the ''[[Minneapolis Tribune]]''.<ref name=schulz/>  It then moved to the ''[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]''; ''Li'l Folks'' ran in the [[Women's page|women's section]] of the paper.

In 1948, Schulz tried to have ''Li'l Folks'' syndicated through the [[Newspaper Enterprise Association]] (a [[Scripps Company]]). 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.<ref name=schulz/>

Later that year, Schulz approached the [[United Feature Syndicate]] (also a [[Scripps Company]]) with ''Li'l Folks'', and the syndicate became interested. By this point, Schulz had redeveloped ''Li'l Folks'' with a four-panel strip format and a set cast of characters, rather than different nameless children for each page. The syndicate accepted 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 chose the name ''Peanuts'', after the [[peanut gallery]] featured in the ''[[Howdy Doody]]'' TV show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/lection/080105.html|title=Schulz and Peanuts|last=Morris|first=Tim|date=January 5, 2008|accessdate=November 17, 2008}}</ref> ''Peanuts'' made its first appearance on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers.