Several of his peers at the awards ceremony were complimentary toward the strip, Wilson said, making the experience even sweeter. I couldn’t picture being this far along in a year.” It’s only been in syndication for about a year so I was shocked it got that kind of recognition,” Wilson added. “It was shocking because it’s a new comic.
It’s very rare for such a young strip to win, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer, more talented dude,” said Shena Wolf, syndication director of comics and acquisitions for Andrews McMeel. “Will Henry’s win for best comic strip was a huge surprise. It has been picked up by about 200 papers since making its national syndication last spring, including the Newport Daily News and Providence Journal. The strip has been featured weekly on page 2 of The Jamestown Press since summer 2016. Wilson said the setting “absolutely” was influenced by Jamestown. Also featured in the strip is his family, including his lobsterman father, and his two friends, Spud and Amelia. The comic is about an adventurous young boy named Wallace McLellan who lives in the fictional Rhode Island town of Snug Harbor. “Wallace the Brave” premiered on the Go Comics website in June 2015. “I was sitting in a room with a thousand other cartoonists, a lot of people I respect and admire, and I sat there for a second and my editor was like, ‘go, they called you.’ I was on Cloud Nine for a couple days and now it’s back to business as usual.” Wilson, who writes the strip under the pen name Will Henry, won for Best Newspaper Comic Strip at the 73rd annual Reuben Awards presented by the National Cartoonists Society last month in Huntington Beach, Calif. Will Wilson, whose “Wallace the Brave” comic strip has been in syndication since June 2018, is now an award-winning cartoonist. Release Day Blitz for CHRISTMAS WITH SAINT by J.Will Wilson with his award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip at the 73rd annual Reuben Awards presented by the National Cartoonists Society. Release Day Blitz for RIDE TOUGH by Tessa Layne 27th Release Day Blitz for Promised Love by Vikki Jay 25th Release Day Blitz for Single & Ready to Jingle by Piper Rayne 15th Release Day Tour for Dead Serious Case #2 Mrs. Release Day Tour for Triple Intent by Kristian Parker 28th Release Day Blitz for Knight of Sword & Shadow by Eve L. Release Day Blitz for The C Agreement by R.L. Release Day Blitz for The Matchmaker and the Cowboy by Robin Bielman 25th Release Day Blitz for Hell Hath No Fury Anthology 18thīlog Tour for Scrooging Christmas by Sarah Ready 20th Release Day Blitz for Butt-dialing the billionaire by Annika Martin 11thĬover Reveal for Cole & Mistletoe by Sadie Rose 14thĪudiobook Tour for His Bewildered Mate by Brea Alepoú 16th It wasn’t all for me, but there were a few fun things that I did enjoy.
I also thought this story took place in the past (like 80s/90s), but then there are some mentions which sets it firmly around this time.Īll in all, I am happy that I tried this book. I did like the fact the houses were all build on poles (I guess because the water can rise at any moment?). The map was a nice addition, though I feel it could have been more detailed. We see enough parts of it, but until the map at the end I never could connect all these parts together in one picture. I would have loved to see more of the town the characters lived in. Wallace and his imagination, oh good lord, that kid should write books/make comics. The parents were great, they were fun, interesting.
I was happy to see that his brother was a weirdo, but not an annoying weirdo, like so many other little brothers are in books/comics.
The characters were pretty decent, I especially liked Wallace and his family. I love both those comics, but to see someone try to combine them and make something new? It just didn’t fit. The art was definitely C&H, the story was a mixture of Peanuts and C&H.
WALLACE THE BRAVE BOOK PLUS
And I so did want to finish this one, plus I had hopes that this one would get better (spoiler: no).Īlso this just felt like Peanuts x Calvin and Hobbes. I got to page 40 and then I was already already looking at the page count and dreading the fact I still had 140+ pages to go before I was finished. But sadly, it was also terribly boring, and it tried just a bit too hard to be funny, and failing at that. There were good moments, oh yes, there were. The blurb and the cover did shout: “Read this book!” So I obliged, though I wish I hadn’t. I never heard of Wallace the Brave, but I was curious when I spotted this book over on Netgalley. I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.