“They had a lot of good things to say about it, which was almost more rewarding than the award,” he said.Ī year ago, Wilson’s debut book did not win either of the Eisner Awards it was nominated for at the San Diego Comic-Con International convention - Best Publication for Kids (ages 9–12) and Best Humor Publication. 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. Will Wilson with his award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip at the 73rd annual Reuben Awards presented by the National Cartoonists Society.
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