In 2000 the USPS issued this 34 cent stamp recognition of Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, creator of a comic strip that appeared in newspapers for fifty years. Readers identified with Schulz's pint-sized characters, which became part of modern American culture. In the 1960s, the beagle featured on the stamp climbed on top of his dog house and into his own fantasy. He became a World War I ace pilot pursuing the infamous enemy flyer, the Red Baron.