“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.

Jack McElroy is executive editor of the News Sentinel.Will Wilson with his award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip at the 73rd annual Reuben Awards presented by the National Cartoonists Society. “Hagar” is by no means a horrible comic, but in recent years it has been losing ground in the News Sentinel’s comics surveys, and we think readers will come to find “Wallace the Brave” an even more lovable hero.Īs always, though, we welcome your feedback. “Wallace” replaces “Hagar the Horrible.” The rollicking Viking was created in 1973 by Dik Browne, and in more recent years the strip has been continued by his son Chris.

Starting this week, in the footsteps of “The Yellow Kid,” it moves onto newsprint. The strip originally debuted online and already has a large fan base and a book. “Wallace the Brave” follows the adventures of 6-year-old Wallace Maclellan, his friends Spud and Amelia, his mother, father and younger brother, and his second-grade teacher at Moonstone Elementary, Mrs.

Henry draws inspiration from everyday life for his mythical Snug Harbor, where kids 'still collect bugs, fly kites and eat ice cream cones upside down.”

Wallace the Brave by Will Henry