“The nice thing is they can take the material that I give the syndicate side, put it in a book and bind it up nicely,” Wilson said. The third volume, “Wicked Epic Adventures,” collects every “Wallace” strip published in the first half of 2019 with the exception of the Sunday editions. The first collection, titled “Wallace the Brave,” was released in 2017 followed by “Snug Harbor Stories” in 2019. “The funky, the obscure and the just plain beautiful.”
“I try to include them as much as I can,” he said. For example, there are offshore houses that resemble Clingstone and coves similar to the inlets at Fort Wetherill. Wilson works to highlight his hometown in the comic by using imagery that his neighbors would recognize. The cast features his fisherman father, his green-thumbed mother, his “feral” younger brother Sterling and his friends, Amelia, Spud and Rose. The strip follows the adventures of Wallace McLennan, a curious, carefree young boy who lives in the fictional Rhode Island town of Snug Harbor, which is loosely based on Jamestown. “Wallace the Brave” is syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication, a Kansas City-based company that also publishes “Garfield,” “Nancy,” “Doonesbury” and “FoxTrot.” The comic is followed by 6,358 fans on the website GoComics, and Wilson posts his work to his Instagram account, which has nearly 30,000 followers. “Because we’re all connected, and the comic can be online, I get a lot of response from around the globe,” he said. Since its debut in June 2015, the strip has garnered an international following. The strip is drawn by Will Wilson, under the pen name Will Henry, and is printed in more than 100 daily newspapers across the country. “Wicked Epic Adventures,” the third collection of “Wallace the Brave” comic strips, hits the shelves Tuesday. His new book featuring the award-winning cartoon hits the shelves March 23.Ī Jamestown resident whose comic strip pays homage to his hometown is releasing another book on the exploits of his whimsical characters. Will Wilson draws a “Wallace the Brave” comic strip on the beach behind East Ferry Wharf.
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