(courtesy official Will Henry Twitter/X account (c) Will Henry/Go Comics)
Wallace the Brave, which flows from the imaginatively whimsical hand of Will Henry, is of those unicorn comic strips that has it all.
Set in the archetypal New England town of Snug Harbor [sic], the strip follows the adventures of Wallace, his quirky but loving family, Wallace’s friends and the way in which the ordinary becomes the extraordinarily imaginative when our eponymous protagonist considers the world around him.
It captures how big and wide and fantastical the world can be when you’re a child, and even as an adult, if like Wallace’s parents, you let yourself keep that inner child alive and kicking.
If you do, you’ll find life that little bit more magical and fun, and while everything won’t be perfect, it’ll be a damn sight that if you simply stayed in a lane shorn of flights of giddily ridiculous imagination.
I love Wallace the Brave, and watching Henry, the pen name of William Henry Wilson, create one of his lavishly beautiful Sunday strips, recently released in Sunday Funday Wallace, is just a joy, especially watching the world of the comic strip and its zestily offbeat characters come wonderfully to life.