Cartoonist Kevin Fagan grew up idolizing Charles M. Schulz and “Peanuts.” Now that his own comic strip, “Drabble,” is turning 45 this week, Fagan is contemplating his long run in the funny pages and ...

At the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, visitors bring characters to life using a light table. © Charles M. Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa, CA / photo ...

A uniformed police officer stands sideways, his head turned to face us. His eyes are unnaturally close together, rendered by the artist as two black dots floating in the very center of his face. He ...

The dog has been chained to a post for as long as anyone has known him. He has longed to run free. In his dreams, he is untethered. But it wasn’t until a few weeks ago that his creator, New Jersey’s ...

It was the summer of 1930. The country was in the first year of what became known as the Great Depression, and folks were already nostalgic for the carefree party-filled days and nights of the 1920s.

Cartoonist and Army veteran Charles Schulz holds a drawing of his famous comic strip character "Snoopy," September 1995. (Ben Margot/AP) It was a scene that played out countless times in homes across ...