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    20 days ago

    This strip is adapted from the Li’l Folks comic strip from January 9, 1949:

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        19 days ago

        Yep!

        His uncle called him “Sparky” after the horse Spark Plug in Billy DeBeck’s comic strip Barney Google, which Schulz enjoyed reading.

        Doesn’t say why he started using his real name with Peanuts, though