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With a fisherman dad and a surfer mom, his home life alone provides plenty of material. Starting fresh with Wallace the Brave, a nice kid who does well in school and is something of a beach bum, was a chance to express himself without boundaries. “I wanted to be able to write without putting caution tape over it.” “I had always wanted to go places with those characters, like have them break up and see what would happen, but I knew our families would freak out,” he said, adding that the strip was little on the PG-13 side but there were limitations because of the age of its readership. But because he had veiled the characters so loosely - if at all - he felt stifled creatively. Nothing happens.”Įarlier in his career, Wilson’s work centered around a strip called “Ordinary Bill,” which chronicled the life of a regular guy and his life with his girlfriend, Isis. “Other days I take the day off and set up shop at my desk and nothing. “Some days I can sit down with only two hours until I need to be at work and knock out 30 pieces and everything is just flowing,” he said.

But luck and timing were on his side in recent years as he got noticed by, and later signed a contract with, Andrews McMeel Syndication and began the process of honing his craft, stockpiling strips for later use and rearranging his life to accommodate this new responsibility. “There were times when it was hard - you can only take so much rejection,” he said with a laugh. Wilson draws the strip under the name Will Henry. Wilson, after a lifetime of drawing and doodling and reflecting on life through his cartoons, only recently “arrived” in the world of comic strips when his cartoon hit the national syndication circuit and seemingly overnight began its run in more than 100 newspapers nationwide, including the Telegram & Gazette, which began running the strip March 26. Most notably, even despite the baby who arrived only a week earlier, is the new success the “Wallace the Brave” creator is experiencing in the world of comic strips.

William Wilson sits in the home he shares with his wife and newborn son, acknowledging all there is to celebrate.

Wallace the Brave by Will Henry