Peanuts twice), the Elzie Segar Award in 1980, and the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. "A Charlie Brown Christmas" won a Peabody Award and an Emmy; "Peanuts" cartoon specials have received a total of two Peabody Awards and four Emmys. For his work on the strip, Schulz has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (as does Snoopy) and a place in the William Randolph Hearst Cartoon Hall of Fame. "Peanuts" was featured on the cover of "Time" on April 9, 1965, with the accompanying article calling it "the leader of a refreshing new breed that takes an
It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown Pied Piper, Charlie Brown"). He died in 2000. This was also the first Peanuts special to be animated using digital ink and paint (though the backgrounds are still done in the classic hand-painted style of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s specials.) It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown It Was My Best Birthday Ever, Charlie Brown is the 38th animated TV special based on characters from the Charles M. Schulz comic strip "Peanuts". It is one of two direct-to-video "Peanuts" specials that have yet to air on U.S. TV (the other is "It's the Pied Piper, Charlie