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
Peanuts picked up by United Feature Syndicate, they decided to run the new comic strip he had been working on. This strip was similar in spirit to the panel comic, but had a set cast of characters rather than different nameless little folk for each page. The name "Li'l Folks" was very close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's "Li'l Abner" and a strip titled "Little Folks", so to avoid confusion, the syndicate settled on the name "Peanuts", after the peanut gallery featured in the "Howdy Doody" TV show. The title "Peanuts" was chosen by