Schulz’s career as a cartoonist reached a milestone with the weekly publication of a panel comic called Li’l Folks, in the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper, from June 22, 1947 to January 22, 1950. This panel contained characters and themes which were to reappear in the later strip: in 1950 Schulz sold his Li’l Folks to United Feature Syndicate; due to a conflict with an earlier comic strip that had a similar name, (Tack Knight’s Little Folks), before the strip was published the syndicate opted to rename the strip Peanuts. On October 2, 1950, the first Peanuts comic strip debuted in a four-panel format in seven newspapers nationwide: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, The Allentown Call-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, The Denver Post, and The Seattle Times. On January 6, 1952, Peanuts Sunday comic strips were introduced.
