This drawing was inspired by one of Hank Ketchums “Dennis the Menace” cartoons from the early 60’s. Ketchum was in his prime, his elegant, precise yet freely abstract line delineating almost Japanese woodblock compositions. Around the time I drew this (2006), I had a friendly argument about the relative merits of Charles Schultz vs. Hank Ketchum. I preferred Ketchum, he Schultz, favoring the radical simplicity of the latter’s compositions to the former’s more ostentatious arabesques. I can see his point, but I like what I like.
