Li'l Folks Li'l Folks Li'l Folks, the first comic strip by "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz, was a weekly panel that appeared mainly in Schulz's hometown paper, the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", from June 22, 1947, to January 22, 1950. Schulz's first regular cartoon, "Li'l Folks" can be regarded as an embryonic version of "Peanuts", containing characters and themes which were to reappear in the later strip: a well-dressed young boy with a fondness for Beethoven, à la Schroeder; a dog with a resemblance to Snoopy; and a boy named Charlie Brown. Schulz was 24 at the time he drew "Li'l Folks",
Patty (Peanuts) very first "Peanuts" comic strip, on October 2, 1950. Since her first published appearance, Patty's character developed and appeared frequently until the character began to suffer a decrease in usage. She became less and less prominent until her succeeding appearances are reduced to mere cameos. Both before and after she sank into the background, Patty usually appeared either with her best friend Violet or with the rest of Charlie Brown's baseball team. Her last comic strip appearance was a rerun of a 1992 strip which was republished as the November 27, 1997, strip. Patty made her television debut in the