![]() ![]() For better or worse (no comic strip pun intended there,) Sonny Side Up is the family legacy that Caleb finds as complicated as his relationship with his father. Caleb is in an unsteady position of wanting to strike his own independence from his father while also wanting to be his father in a way. ![]() Joe Ollmann's new book shows a middle-aged man living in the shadow of his father’s success and neglect. So Jimmi must have been a great father, right? Jimmi’s real son Caleb may want to set the record straight on that one. The daily escapades of a father and son in that strip defined the ideal parent/child relationship for generations of newspaper readers. So in Joe Ollman’s Fictional Father, Jimmi Wyatt must have been the greatest father of them judging based solely on his beloved comic strip Sonny Side Up. It’s easy to realize that what we think reflects the artist in the work they do, especially when one work like Peanuts or Calvin And Hobbes defines that artist’s legacy. Bill Watterson has to have an unbridled imagination. ![]() So Charles Schultz must have been one of the warmest and most caring men to have lived in the last 100 years. What do we really know about the creators of our favorite comic books and comic strips or even think of them? Most likely, we relate to them through their work. ![]()
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