In all the history I've read about the Peanuts comic strip, I have not been able to find how exactly Schultz came up with the name "Peanuts" - no other info on the history, just want to know where the name came from. Thanks and good luck, I couldnt find it anywhere.
2006-08-07 18:35:04 · 10 answers · asked by fierowner 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Schulz wanted to retain the title LI'L FOLKS, but the syndicate
worried that this was too close to a previously copyrighted
feature, Tack Knight's LITTLE FOLKS. UFS production manager
Bill Anderson is credited with coming up with PEANUTS, although
he later insisted that he'd been asked to suggest a kid strip
title without actually having SEEN the strip. He delivered a
list of 10 names, of which PEANUTS was one. He later justified
this selection on the basis of the popular TV children's show
of the time, THE HOWDY DOODY SHOW, where the young studio audience would sit in a "peanut gallery."
2006-08-07 18:39:19 · answer #1 · answered by cady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the late 1940s, Schulz did a one-panel feature called Li'l Folks for the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He tried selling it to several syndicates, but was turned down
When United Feature (which syndicated The Captain & the Kids, the cartoons of Bill Mauldin and other well-known toons) bought it, they changed the name to Peanuts (a name Schulz disliked from the start), and offered it as a filler.
2006-08-07 18:39:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe its the name of a different series that Mr. Schultz came up with, instead of calling it Charlie brown comics
2006-08-11 15:59:03 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charles Schulz originally wanted to call it "Good Ol' Charlie Brown, but his editors instead pressured him to call it "Peanuts," another name for small children. I've heard he never really liked the name.
2006-08-08 02:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See FAQ 3.2 below, not credited in other answers.
"Peanut" is also slang for a small or insignificant person, see definitions.
2006-08-07 18:49:06 · answer #5 · answered by dragonwych 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried Wikipedia and Google? It might work
2006-08-07 22:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by kim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from the parents of peanut...
2006-08-07 18:41:08 · answer #7 · answered by jamninz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a nickname for his children.
2006-08-07 18:41:00 · answer #8 · answered by SHASHA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-07 18:37:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't know
2006-08-07 18:37:23 · answer #10 · answered by niles25_14 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋