Al's Childhood Drawings (Part 2)
Hey, it's you!
You're here just in time to jump into the funnybook-artist time machine and travel way back to the year nineteen-and-twenty-eight. Why? Well, it seems that ten-year-old "Jack" Wiseman's been sketchin' up a storm again. You just can't stop that kid from drawin'- he's incorrigible!
OK, let's look at what he's created:
Hmm... Looks like little Alvin "Jack" Wiseman has gone from drawing Mickey Mouse to trying his hand at developing his own original characters. This one's a monkey. Why, it's a whistlin', Mickey-like monkey with his own bar of soap!
Not sure what the joke is concerning the bar of soap or how it relates to monkeys. But that's not for us mere dilettantes to ponder. Let's leave it for more experienced historians to analyze and scrutinize until an answer can be found.
So, what can we conclude from our little visit to the past? It seems that by 1928, young Al/Jack had learned these two things:
1) How to improvise while sketching in order to create his own characters.
2) The importance of proper personal hygiene. (Quite a handy aesthetic practice to employ when you're growing up during the hardships of America's Great Depression.)
So keep practicing, Lil' Al, and one day you'll make us all proud of you!
A special thanks to Teresa Tersol-Wiseman for the scan of Al's cartoon monkey drawing. ('Cause, as I've said before, who doesn't love a cartoon monkey?)
Al's Childhood Drawings:
Part 1/Part 2/Part 3
You're here just in time to jump into the funnybook-artist time machine and travel way back to the year nineteen-and-twenty-eight. Why? Well, it seems that ten-year-old "Jack" Wiseman's been sketchin' up a storm again. You just can't stop that kid from drawin'- he's incorrigible!
OK, let's look at what he's created:
Hmm... Looks like little Alvin "Jack" Wiseman has gone from drawing Mickey Mouse to trying his hand at developing his own original characters. This one's a monkey. Why, it's a whistlin', Mickey-like monkey with his own bar of soap!
Not sure what the joke is concerning the bar of soap or how it relates to monkeys. But that's not for us mere dilettantes to ponder. Let's leave it for more experienced historians to analyze and scrutinize until an answer can be found.
So, what can we conclude from our little visit to the past? It seems that by 1928, young Al/Jack had learned these two things:
1) How to improvise while sketching in order to create his own characters.
2) The importance of proper personal hygiene. (Quite a handy aesthetic practice to employ when you're growing up during the hardships of America's Great Depression.)
So keep practicing, Lil' Al, and one day you'll make us all proud of you!
A special thanks to Teresa Tersol-Wiseman for the scan of Al's cartoon monkey drawing. ('Cause, as I've said before, who doesn't love a cartoon monkey?)
Al's Childhood Drawings:
Part 1/Part 2/Part 3
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