Li'l Folks

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He had some success in 1947 when, uh, there was an anti-communist propaganda book that featured some of his early work, and then he began a weekly series of, uh, one-panel jokes, so there would usually be, like, four per issue, um, at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and this was called Lil Folks, L-I-L. Um, and that ran, that series ran until 1950, but it was basically just one panel at a time.

It wasn't a comic strip, per se.

Yeah, right.

Mm

... you know, a shot at whatever observation of, of life at the time.

Um, and he applied this name, Charlie Brown, in Lil Folks to several different drawings, like, not one specific guy.

Okay.

It was on this date in 1950 the first Peanuts comic strip appeared featuring Charlie Brown.

It was called Li'l Folks.

Charlie Brown and Snoopy appeared for the first time, nine newspapers, and it didn't take long for that to take off.

And this date, 1959, Ralph Nader said, "Unsafe at any speed." The Corvair, the rear engine compact car, uh, every once in a while you'll see those on, on a Facebook Marketplace, and somebody, uh, wants to just get rid of it.