Al's Childhood Drawings (Part 3)
Al Wiseman figured out, and he figured out early, that the world loves cartoon monkeys. Forget Old Man Disney and his tired penchant for anthropomorphic rodents. Monkeys are obviously a giant leap up the evolutionary ladder.
Yeah, we've seen Al's childhood monkey character before, but this time the visage is supplanted with a catchy moniker: Billy Monk.
No, not the praying kind of "monk". This was the tail-swingin', banana-eatin', throwin'-feces-at-you-in-the-zoo kind of "monk".
You know, the kind that dreams are made of.
So let's give ten-year-old cartoonist Alvin "Jack" Wiseman some mad props (as we say in the hip-hop community) and make certain this ovation is a standing one.
A special thanks to Teresa Tersol-Wiseman for the scan of Al's cartoon monkey drawing. And to Jan Wiseman for making me copies years ago...
Al's Childhood Drawings:
Part 1/Part 2/Part 3
2 Comments:
You may pooh-pooh Mr. Disney - but there is something distubingly familiar about Billy's character design from the neck down.
Yeah, it's pretty much the same character design- but who copied whom?
I personally think this Walt Disney guy stole his Mickey Mouse idea from Lil' Al's childhood sketches.
All Walt had to do was jump into his time machine, speed into the future, then rip off poor Al.
And I bet Walt's brother Roy helped, too!
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