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Peanuts Gang
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Actor Biography:Born in Minneapolis in 1922, cartoonist "Charles Schultz" was drawing single panels for "The Saturday Evening Post" when, in 1950, he started making the newspaper-syndicate rounds in hopes of selling a daily children's strip which he wanted to call Li'l Folks. United Feature Syndicate liked the strip but not the name; over Schultz' heated protestations, the strip debuted as Peanuts on October 2, 1950. At first indistinguishable from the many other kid strips of the era, Peanuts began finding its voice in the mid '50s when Schultz started drawing upon his own experiences for material. The strip's central character Charlie Brown, an eternal loser who wore all his neuroses and fears on his very short sleeves, was based on Schultz himself, while Charlie Brown's intellectual dog Snoopy was patterned after Spike, Schultz' childhood pet. As the dramatis personae developed into highly distinctive, highly... Full Biography
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