![]() ![]() He's probably the biggest influence here. Hank Ketcham did the famous square "Dennis the Menace" strips, the boxes, then he hired artists to approximate his style for the Sunday version, and the best was Owen Fitzgerald, who's like the Jack Kirby of kids comics. It's the most naturalistically told comic I've ever seen. Actually, I pull more from "Little Lulu," "Archie Comics," "Dennis the Menace" - since the comic is about a 5-year-old boy, "Dennis the Menace" was the starting point. ![]() I didn't intend that, but "Peanuts" is ingrained in us. A little round-headed boy with no hair, I suppose, will forever be Charlie Brown, regardless how close to Charlie Brown he actually looks. That little brother in the book could be a sibling of Charlie Brown.Ī: A lot of it overlaps with classic newspaper strips because I read those strips so much (as a kid). ![]() But really, the most obvious nods are the characters themselves, which look like they wandered in from old comics. Q: Your book also feels like a kind of homage to the influences of a childhood summer - you even include this page of footnotes to Don Drysdale, "Bozo the Clown," "Petticoat Junction" characters. ![]()
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