About Mike Peters (cartoonist)
Michael Bartley Peters (born October 9, 1943) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and the creator of the comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm. == Early life == Mike Peters was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where his mother, Charlotte Peters, was the host of one of the earliest TV talk shows, in which she interviewed film stars and politicians as early as 1949. Accompanying his mother to the studio, he met such celebrities as Bob Hope and Martin and Lewis. The show influenced Peters' own life: My mom did more than a talk show. If you go to YouTube and put in Charlotte Peters, you can see an hour of her show. She sang, she danced, she entertained 250 audience members every day. It was a variety show, but also a talk show... My sister and I were like celebrities in town because of our mom. And during freshman year of high school, I would have girls who I didn’t even know call me and ask me to come with them to their junior or senior prom.
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