Charles M. Schulz - Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, whose comic strip Peanuts proved one of the most popular and influential in the history of the medium, and is still widely reprinted on a daily basis.Schulzs first regular cartoons, Lil Folks, were published from 1947 to 1950 by the St. Paul Pioneer Press; he first used the name Charlie Brown for a character there, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys and one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In 1948, Schulz sold a cartoon to The Saturday Evening Post; the first of 17 single panel cartoons by Schulz that would be published there. In 1948, Schulz tried to have Lil Folks syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Associatio Charles Monroe Schulz was an American cartoonist, wh...
