Ask Shagg – What’re Peter Guren’s Future Plans?
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The (Springfield) Republican had carried the Ask Shagg comic strip by Peter Guren.
With the feature ending, editor Cynthia G. Simison asked Peter about his past…
For the next two years, Guren says, he worked among an inspiring group of cartoon artists, many of whom were just like him, pitching their comic strip ideas to syndicates. “It was the best job you could ever get,” he remembers of the floor at American Greetings where a dead plant greeted everyone getting off the elevator. “It had a sign, ‘Do not feed this plant. It’s being punished.’”
and his future:
About five years ago, he published a children’s book, “There’s a Hippo in My Closet (and other reasons for not going to bed).” His children (two sons and a daughter ranging from 42 to 36) and grandchildren (six of them from ages 1 to 7) have convinced him to turn to writing and illustrating children’s books full-time. His latest, “Time to Wake Up Daddy,” with a story line that follows two young children with a father deep asleep and snoring loudly, was sent to his agent just this week.
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