TOM: There’s a lot of Cul de Sac and Calvin and Hobbes in your work, do you realize that? WILL: I don’t believe I was THAT rambunctious as a kid. TOM: Wallace is a “little maniac,” your words. I do color the comics digitally for the web, though…so yeah I’m hip. WILL: I’m a 32 year old dinosaur, it’s all pen, paper, ink and watercolor. TOM: Do you draw digitally or the old fashioned way – pen and ink? I even have two years of unpublished Wallace Sunday strips….slacker. TOM: How far ahead do you work before a comic is published? Eventually I ended Ordinary Bill and thought I’d start a new comic that better represented where I was. Throughout the years I was writing Ordinary Bill I felt it was important to keep the original look, even though my style developed.

It was an incredibly limiting strip and my style and ideas were still developing. I created Ordinary Bill when I was in college. How did that come about? The change in look, I mean?

Ordinary Bill was simple line drawing and black and white, Wallace is a masterpiece of art and color. TOM: You have two comic strips, Wallace The Brave and Ordinary Bill. Will Henry Wilson in his liquor store/studio. I recently interviewed Will about Wallace the Brave. There’s not usually a gag each day, it’s more of a slice of life. It reminds me a lot of Calvin and Hobbes and Cul de Sac.

It’s not only clever, but I love the drawing style. Will Henry Wilson’s comic strip, “ Wallace The Brave” which is published at GoComics daily is now published in daily newspapers.

Wallace the brave original