MOTHER GOOSE & GRIMM
Mother Goose and Grimm were first distributed by Tribune Media Services in 1984. Creator Mike Peters designed a comic strip where a little old lady whose connection with reality is just a tiny bit on the tenuous side, teamed up with a dog that could easily pass for a horrifying hallucination — that's the formula that's made Mother Goose & Grimm a huge success on both the comics page and the TV screen.
The cast is rounded out by Atilla, Mother Goose's cat, whose major role is to be harassed, terrified and otherwise antagonized by Grimmy. But if a gag that doesn't involve these characters should happen to suggest itself to Mike Peters, he won't hesitate to do it without them. In fact, he's not above the occasional use of characters from other strips, such as Popeye or Nancy should a be good way to make fun of them occur to him.
Peters won awards — including the Pulitzer Prize — for his editorial cartoons before launching Mother Goose & Grimm, which first appeared in papers on October 1, 1984. He then proceeded to win awards for the strip — including the National Cartoonists' Society's prestigious Reuben Award, which he received in 1991.
By 1991, Grimmy was appearing in over 500 newspapers, and several reprint books were out. The strip now appears in more papers than ever. And no end is in sight.
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