Charles Schulz at 100.

The annual Peanuts Veterans Day homage to Stars and Stripes cartoonist Bill Mauldin (only a year older than Schulz himself) was Schulz's way of honoring those who had a harder war than he did. Charlie Brown was Schulz's most obvious alter ego, carrying his first name and being (like Schulz) the proud son of a barber. The same could be said of Charles Monroe Schulz, the Peanuts creator who was born in Minneapolis on November 26, 1922, to a German immigrant and the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, and who died in his sleep on February 12, 2000, the night before his final comic strip ran in the Sunday papers. [Extracted from the article]