21 Questions: Peter Guren
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Who is your favorite literary character?
Jack Reacher from the Lee Childs books. He’s a bad-ass! Either that or Frog and Toad from the Weekly Reader I CAN READ books.
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What is your greatest fear?
Filling out a 21 Questions survey
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If you could make a cameo appearance in a show, what show would it be?
Modern Family
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One thing you could eat for the rest of your life?
Pretzels. In fact, I’m eating them right now.
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Favorite movie? Worst Movie?
Either “Caddyshack” or “Multiplicity” or “Field of Dreams.”
Worst movie? -- I don’t know. It was so bad, I don’t remember the name.
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If you could be born again into any era, which would you choose? Or, if you could come back as a historical figure/anyone, who would it be?
I’d stay in this era. I couldn’t live without velcro.
Historical figure: George de Mestral... Google it.
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What is your motto?
“My wife...I’ve got her right where she wants me.”
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What song do you have on repeat?
“Bang on the Drum” by Todd Rundgren...it’s my ringtone.
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Ultimate vacation?
Sun on a beach somewhere with my wife and kids; especially when we can get there in a private jet. See? I’m easy to please.
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Raising three of the coolest kids in the world!
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What is your favorite cartoon/comic character?
Any Peanuts character and Alfred E. Neuman...an interesting combination, don’t you think?
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If you weren't drawing, what would you be doing?
Working on special effects for movies or TV.
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My biggest pet peeve is ...
Waiting in a doctor’s office when they are late with their appointments and having to try and read a book when the @#$% TV is on.
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Who do you admire/who is your role model?
My wife! (That was just in case she ever reads this thing.)
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When was the last time you laughed really hard?
With my older brother. It was not “wet yer pants” hard, but it was close.
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One thing you couldn’t live without?
My wife! (That was just in case she ever reads this thing.)
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Guilty pleasure?
Milk Duds... the soft, fresh ones.
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What is your greatest extravagance?
My car. I work out of the house. What do I need my own car for?!
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The best advice you've ever gotten?
Draw the last panel of the cartoon first. If it doesn’t work, you haven’t wasted all that time and energy on the early stuff.
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I know it's weird but I think...
Movies and TV shows are too real to me. I never could look at a horror flick and go, “Don’t worry, it’s just a movie.”