SUNDAY FUNNIES-Grimmy Goes For A Walk

Mother Goose & Grimm, by Mike Peters, and appeared in newspapers August 11, 1997 (which was also a year when Mary Poppins was released on video in the Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection). This brilliant cartoonist must also be a Disney fan (like many comic artists mentioned before in the Sunday Funnies), as he makes plentiful use of the Disney world for his often laugh-out-loud strip that often features Grimmy. The world’s greatest conflict, World War II, provided both a birth date for Peters–October 9, 1943–and a mentor–Bill Mauldin.

From an early age he exhibited an interest in cartooning that stayed with him through school. Following his graduation from Washington University he began his art career on the staff of the Chicago Daily News. His first cartooning position came after a two-year stint in Vietnam as part of the U.S. Army, and as a result of Bill Maudlin, who helped him find the position at the Dayton Daily News in 1969. He began as an editorial cartoonist, and by 1972 his strip was syndicated nationally–and still appears today. In 1984 the strip Mother Goose & Grimm was born, and now appears in over 800 newspapers worldwide. Moreover, it routinely places in various Top Ten polls for comic strips.