Schulz's first group of regular cartoons, a weekly series of one-panel jokes called "Li’l Folks", was published from June 1947 to January 1950 in the "St. Paul Pioneer Press," with Schulz usually doing four one-panel drawings per issue. It was in "Li'l Folks" that Schulz first used the name Charlie Brown for a character, although he applied the name in four gags to three different boys as well as one buried in sand. The series also had a dog that looked much like Snoopy. In May 1948, Schulz sold his first one-panel drawing to "The Saturday Evening Post"; within the next two years, a total of 17 untitled drawings by Schulz were published in the "Post", simultaneously with his work for the "Pioneer Press". Around the same time, he tried to have "Li'l Folks" syndicated through the Newspaper Enterprise Association; Schulz would have been an independent contractor for the syndicate, unheard of in the 1940s, but the deal fell through. "Li'l Folks" was dropped from the "Pioneer Press" in January 1950.