That is a beautiful strip. I like the use of color to note the passage of time in the woods - and the bat. The strong red at the end brings home the gag, which is what probably caught all of our eyes in the last post. That was a nice gift from your brother, if only for the beautiful art and great pacing!
So my father grew up with Walt's son. they were family friends. I have a lot of Walt's original artwork. I would be happy to show them to you if you are interested in Reading them.
Thanks for the follow up post! And I found this on Wikipedia:
"Walter Louis "Walt" Ditzen (August 8, 1913 – March 4, 1973) was an American cartoonist. Ditzen drew the "Fan Fare" cartoon strip.[1][2] Fan Fare was launched in 1947 (syndicated by the John F. Dille Co.) running until 1961, when it changed title to Fun Fare, running until 1973. Ditzen helped and advised Charles Schulz on the early samples of Charlie Brown.[3]"
Footnote 3 reads: "Schulz, Charles M. My Life with Charlie Brown (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), p. 32: "In all the articles that have been written about Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the other things we have been doing, none of the writers has ever mentioned that the one cartoonist who helped most was Walt Ditzen. When he was working for one of the syndicates in Chicago, I dropped in with a batch of samples and he went far out of his way that day and later to give me advice and help that I badly needed. I have always regretted that Walt never got any credit for this where people could hear about it.""
And I easily relate to Ralph's haircut situation. Once Covid shut things down, my wife got me a hair trimmer. Set on #2, I cut my own now, and she does the trim work at the end!
That is a beautiful strip. I like the use of color to note the passage of time in the woods - and the bat. The strong red at the end brings home the gag, which is what probably caught all of our eyes in the last post. That was a nice gift from your brother, if only for the beautiful art and great pacing!
I'm not at all clever.
You are clever according to auto-correct!
Auto-correct is all that really matters.
30 million readers??
It’s possible. United Features Syndicate estimated Drabble’s daily readership at 24 million in the late 90’s (when newspapers were already declining).
Nearly everyone read newspapers back in the day.
So my father grew up with Walt's son. they were family friends. I have a lot of Walt's original artwork. I would be happy to show them to you if you are interested in Reading them.
Thanks for the follow up post! And I found this on Wikipedia:
"Walter Louis "Walt" Ditzen (August 8, 1913 – March 4, 1973) was an American cartoonist. Ditzen drew the "Fan Fare" cartoon strip.[1][2] Fan Fare was launched in 1947 (syndicated by the John F. Dille Co.) running until 1961, when it changed title to Fun Fare, running until 1973. Ditzen helped and advised Charles Schulz on the early samples of Charlie Brown.[3]"
Footnote 3 reads: "Schulz, Charles M. My Life with Charlie Brown (University Press of Mississippi, 2010), p. 32: "In all the articles that have been written about Charlie Brown and Snoopy and the other things we have been doing, none of the writers has ever mentioned that the one cartoonist who helped most was Walt Ditzen. When he was working for one of the syndicates in Chicago, I dropped in with a batch of samples and he went far out of his way that day and later to give me advice and help that I badly needed. I have always regretted that Walt never got any credit for this where people could hear about it.""
Quite a thing to treasure!
And I easily relate to Ralph's haircut situation. Once Covid shut things down, my wife got me a hair trimmer. Set on #2, I cut my own now, and she does the trim work at the end!