Growing up in the early 1970s, I drew Snoopy constantly. I started young, depicting Snoopy on his doghouse as three small white hills on a red triangle. Before long, I graduated to Snoopy as a Flying ...

As a child, Clara Spars, who grew up in Charles M. Schulz's adoptive hometown of Santa Rosa, Calif., assumed that every city had life-size "Peanuts" statues dotting its streets. After all, Spars saw ...