Question: What famous cartoonist became famous for animated holiday specials like "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"?
Context: Linda M. Ercoli (born on March 7, 1960 in California) is an American actress and singer.  As a child she was regularly featured as one of the voice actors (actresses) in the "Peanuts" cartoons, playing various parts in the films and television specials.  She provided the voice of Violet in "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown", "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown" (and also the voice of Patty), and "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown" (and also the voice of Frieda).  Ercoli also voiced Peppermint Patty in "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown", and Clara in the second Peanuts movie "Snoopy, Come Home".  She voiced Violet again in "Happy Anniversary, Charlie Brown". Arrin Skelley is an American voice actor.  He is best known for being the voice actor of Charlie Brown in three prime time television specials: – "You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown", "It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown", and "She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown".  Skelley also was a voice actor of Charlie Brown in "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (and Don't Come Back!!) ", an animated film from 1980.  Skelley also provided the voice for newly recorded soundtracks featured on "Charlie Brown Records" released in 1978. Robin Kohn Glazer is a former child actress noted for providing the voice of Lucy van Pelt in various "Peanuts" animation films during the early 1970s in "Snoopy Come Home", "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown", "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving", and "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown".  Later on, her sister Melanie Kohn would inherit the role from her.  She is now a real estate broker in Marin County, California and does some voiceover and acting work under the name Robin Kohn Glazer. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the tenth prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schulz.  It was originally aired on the CBS network on November 20, 1973, and won an Emmy Award the following year.  Currently, the special is aired every November in prime time on the ABC network.  It was the third holiday special after "A Charlie Brown Christmas" in 1965 and "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" in 1966. Eight Crazy Nights is a 2002 American adult animated holiday musical comedy film directed by Seth Kearsley and produced, co-written by and starring Adam Sandler, in his first voice-acting role.  Unlike most mainstream holiday films, it centers on Jewish characters during the Hanukkah season, as opposed to religious or secular celebration of Christmas.  Despite being animated in the style of television holiday specials, the film is adult oriented, featuring significant scatological humor, and focusing on such topics as alcoholism, bereavement, and depression. Stephen Shea (born December 21, 1961 in Los Angeles, California) is a former child actor most noted for voicing the character of Linus van Pelt (inheriting the role from his older brother, Christopher) in seven animated "Peanuts" television specials ("Play It Again, Charlie Brown", "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown", "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving", "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown", "It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown", "It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown", and "Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown"), and in the feature-length animated film "Snoopy Come Home".  Stephen is also the brother of actor Eric Shea. Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, which ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.  The comic strip is the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being".  At its peak, "Peanuts" ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of 355 million in 75 countries, and was translated into 21 languages.  It helped to cement the four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion.  Reprints of the strip are still syndicated and run in almost every U.S. newspaper. What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown!  is the 17th primetime animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip "Peanuts", created by Charles M. Schulz.  It was originally aired on Thursday, February 23, 1978, at 8:00 P.M. ET/PT on CBS.  The special is unusual in that Snoopy and Charlie Brown are the only members of the "Peanuts" cast to appear in it.  The plot is similar to that of Jack London's "Call of the Wild".  This was the first special Bill Melendez directed since 1973's "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving". Hilary Momberger (born June 16, 1962) is a former child actress from the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Momberger, who hails from Los Angeles, was the voice of Sally Brown in four "Peanuts" specials "It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown" (1969), "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown" (1972), "There's No Time for Love, Charlie Brown" (1973), and "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving" (1973).  She also voiced Sally in the second "Peanuts" movie "Snoopy, Come Home" (1972).  In recent years Momberger has become a successful script supervisor working on varied film titles including: "Being John Malkovich" and "Rat Race" and TV series including: "Dawson's Creek", "Grey's Anatomy" and "Ally McBeal". Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a 1964 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions and currently distributed by Universal Television.  It first aired Sunday, December 6, 1964, on the NBC television network in the United States, and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of "The General Electric Fantasy Hour".  The special was based on the Johnny Marks song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" which was itself based on the poem of the same name written in 1939 by Marks' brother-in-law, Robert L. May.  Since 1972, the special has aired on CBS, with the network unveiling a high-definition, digitally remastered version of the program in 2005.  As with "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", "Rudolph" no longer airs just once annually, but several times during the Christmas and holiday season on CBS.  Unlike other holiday specials that also air on several cable channels (including Freeform), "Rudolph" only airs on CBS.  It has been telecast every year since 1964, making it the longest running Christmas TV special in history.  2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the television special and a series of postage stamps featuring Rudolph was issued by the United States Postal Service on November 6, 2014.
Answer: Charles M. Schulz