What happened to Barasui ( Ichigo Mashimaro's author )? Ichigo Mashimaro was first published in 2002. There is no information about the author except on Wikipedia. His last published tankobon was on March 2013, 2013, stuck at volume 7 (according to Wikipedia).

Does anyone know what happened to him and his works?
Ichigo Mashimaro is still being published, albeit slowly and irregularly. The author, Barasui, was on hiatus due to a sudden illness on 2015-08-29, but the rest of hiatuses were due to &quot;the author's circumstance&quot; until recently.

Regarding the serialization on Monthly Dengeki Daioh, according to the English Wikipedia, the title is still on-going. It's hinted clearer on the Japanese counterpart since it's included in the 現在連載中の作品 (currently serialized title) category instead of 休載中 (on hiatus).
Regarding the author, Barasui, according to Japanese Wikipedia, there's a remark about his irregular publishing time (or, hiatus) because of his unusually slow writing pace:

He was on hiatus from edition 2009-5 to 2010-2 (10 months)
Even if he did publish it, it was only an average of 5-6 pages including the cover page. However, the illustration was so detailed and each chapter could stand alone, making it a short-story manga
In edition 2015-12, he only published 8 pages compared to his previous usual 18 pages (also, compared to Yotsuba to!'s 28 pages)

Regarding the title itself, according to Japanese Wikipeda about the published date of the tankobon:


Volume 5: 2007-04-27
Volume 6: 2009-02-27 (1 year and 10 months later)
Volume 7: 2013-03-27 (4 years and 1 month later)

(parentheses mine)

However, according to the specialized wiki on atwiki (Japanese),

2017-05-27: Chapter 78 (4 pages) was published in edition 2017-07
2017-06-27: Chapter 78 (12 pages) was published in edition 2017-08, no plan for next chapter's number and announcement
2017-07-27: Barasui is on hiatus to work on the next tankobon
2017-08-10: The 8th volume appeared on Amazon Japan, to be released on 2017-11-27
2017-10-18: The author mentioned the release for the next tankobon on 2017-11-27 (on Barasui's image storehouse (Japanese))