He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, where his mother, Charlotte Peters, was a local television personality with one of the earliest TV talk shows, interviewing film stars and politicians as early as 1949.
Drafted into the army, he spent two years of service as an artist for the Seventh Psychological Operations Group in Okinawa.
[4] As a joke, he once stood on the building ledge outside the Daily News building for 30 minutes wearing a Superman costume so that he could make an entrance to a meeting through the window in the manner of actor George Reeves entering Perry White's office on The Adventures of Superman.
[citation needed] In 1984, he launched Mother Goose and Grimm, distributed by King Features Syndicate.
[5] Peters' editorial cartoons and his comic strip are both distributed through King Features' DailyINK email service.