A Conversation for 'Peanuts' by Charles Schulz - a History
Peanuts?
Bez (arguaby the finest figure of a man ever found wearing Bez's underwear) <underpants> Started conversation Jun 17, 2003
So, why was it called 'Peanuts'? Especially if Schultz didn't like the name?
Bez
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Great Omnipotent Tigger Posted Jun 17, 2003
i don't know, but I once heard that other comic strips used to suffer from "Peanuts" envy. 
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Hikaru Poet Posted Jun 18, 2003
Actually, it was originally called "Li'l Folks." Early on, some publishing or syndication bigwig thought "Peanuts" would be a better sell as a title, so that's the name it got, over Schulz's objections.
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Sep 16, 2005
I always assumed it was called Peanuts because the original characters were shaped like peanuts in their shells, with a big round body and an equal sized big round head.
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RFJS__ - trying to write an unreadable book, finding proofreading tricky Posted Dec 9, 2005
<< Actually, it was originally called "Li'l Folks." >>
I don't have the books to hand, unfortunately, but the version of the story I remember was that the Li'l Folks cartoons were single-image-per-joke works, rather than strips, that were proto-Peanuts style-wise. When Schulz created the Peanuts strip pretty much all he could think of for a name was 'Good Ol' Charlie Brown' or similar, and it was at this point that he was overruled.
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- 1: Bez (arguaby the finest figure of a man ever found wearing Bez's underwear) <underpants> (Jun 17, 2003)
- 2: Great Omnipotent Tigger (Jun 17, 2003)
- 3: Hikaru Poet (Jun 18, 2003)
- 4: Gnomon - time to move on (Sep 16, 2005)
- 5: RFJS__ - trying to write an unreadable book, finding proofreading tricky (Dec 9, 2005)
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