Dennis the Menace Coloring Books (Part 2)
Look! It's another image of that pesky Mitchell kid! It's funny how he keeps sneaking into the Al Wiseman Blog, no?
We try to keep him away, but he just won't stop showing up. Maybe he thinks this is the Wilson residence or something...
Oh well, let's use his little visit as an excuse to remind you (yet again) to buy massive amounts of Fantagraphics Dennis books every chance you get. In fact, purchase yourself a nice spacious warehouse or two so you'll have someplace to stack up all your volumes of Dennis daily panel reprints.
Only that, and that alone, will convince Fantagraphics' publisher Gary Groth to saturate the market with Wiseman Dennis reprints. Well, that and your letters and emails.
Here's your daily dose of Wiseman:
Above: From an unknown Dennis the Menace coloring book- it's Dennis and some cute lil' gal-child.
Above: "This is where I live!" claims Dennis. I see no reason to doubt him.Dennis the Menace Coloring Book Posts:
Part 1/Part 2
Please order Dennis the Menace books from Fantagraphics (and ask them to reprint the Wiseman Dennis comic books and Sunday strips).
"Dennis the Menace" & related characters are ©Hank Ketcham Enterprises, Inc.
4 Comments:
It's funny, and I know you say all this in jest, but I have toyed with the idea of buying up tons of those Dennis books as presents and to hoard them just to make the titles so successful that demand for Dennis would go through the roof. It may even be worth it just to get those Sundays reprinted! But, money is money, so...so much for that idea. But believe me when I say a lot of people I know will be getting the Dennis collections for Christmas, and they will love them. Who couldn't?
Giving out the Dennis dailies books as presents is a great idea! How could anyone resist those early Ketcham panels?
Especially as the reprints are about to enter the era when Ketcham's art most closely resembles Wiseman's.
Some have said HK got competitive when he saw Aw's stuff.
I also wonder if AW didn't occasionally help on the daily panels during that era.
You have to wonder how much Wiseman helped out in the evolution (and rounding out) of Dennis visually. And how much different Dennis might have looked without Wiseman's influence...
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