Wallace the Brave by Will Henry for September 22, 2024

Awesome! Love it when we get a look at the school incidentals!

Soooo much going on! I would love it if Will H could explain all the scenarios.

THE GRAND ENTRANCE.

Great tribute to the Vatican fresco “The School of Athens” by Raphael! Clever indeed, Mr. Henry.

One kid almost killed himself on the stairs, Amelia making a killing at craps, and a mouse looking for crap to eat. The grand circle of life.

Loosely based on the famous fresco The School of Athens by Raphael. Very loosely.

GO MOLLUSKS

That looks like a milkweed plant going to seed that Wallace is carrying. He holds it like its a scepter and he is king of the school.

Anybody see the seagull? I know he’s in there somewhere.

I’m looking for Seagull

Spud-istotle is carrying the 2nd volume of “Poetics”, and he seems a bit distracted …

I can’t tell what kind of plant Wallace is holding.

Class of 2035… Beware…

We need the sound effect of the talking crowd! Gocomics, introduce sound effects to the comics you publish on this site, just add a sound player to the strip!

This is your best yet, Mr Henry

45 individuals, Wow

Wallace and Spud are Plato and Aristotle? Of course they are. Very, very well done, sir.

Careful with that milkweed pod, Wallace!!

Watch out Amelia, Ms Macintosh has you in her sight!

The teacher’s thinking, “How many days until summer vacation?”

“The School of Snug Harbor” Raphael would be proud!

It’s jungle in there.

I love when Will Henry does stuff like this, and have to examine every detail.

And Michelangelo is drawing, drawing, drawing, at his school chair . . a mouse, at the moment . .

You’ve outdone yourself, Will!!

Go Mollusks!

Will Henry – How much to sponsor a Classics re-imagined series (could be hung in the Museum of Cartoon Art)? Rose in Joseph Wright of Derby’s Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus, Spud as Bartolomeo Passerotti’s Egg Thief, Amelia as Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps, Sterling in Goya’s Saturn Devouring one of His Sons, and Wallace as Francis Drake (by whoever it was that did the best painting of Drake).

I see a mouse, a puppy and… Seagull!

Rose and the other kid giving each other the side eye – one wonders if, perhaps, they are scholastic rivals???

Where’s the seagull?

Are they ready for school or are they ready for school???

I had to go look at the original, this one is way better. No offense to Raphael.

Where is the sea gull?

“We’re all in our places With sun-shiny faces;Oh this is the way To start a new day!”

Great job, Wil Henry!!

I love that Rose has her own groupies. And yes, I joined the Latin Club in high school for one year. There were a whole three of us and the teacher. They didn’t bother having it the next year. That was out of 1200 students, grades 9-12.

Looks like someone lost their lunch at the bottom of the stairs.

I can’t see gull ….

Who is the girl in the upper right looking fondly at?

I was the kid who fell on the stairs. And, unfortunately, I still am.

Yeah, that pretty much how I remember it.

Great art……

Brilliant!

Nice work, Will! We know you don’t use the new tech for these, and that makes it extra special!

Only thing missing is the janitor spreading sweeping compound over a pool of barf.

The little puppy hidden in the girl’s jacket is adorable!

Another gem. Thanks.

So many stories happening in one picture.

Raffaello Sanzio would be proud.

Don’t look now Amelia, but the eyes of Mrs Mac’ are upon you!

I love how there’s so much to find and see,a joke is not even necessary

I love this so much. Every little detail. Will is a master of his craft.

Wow, this is special! It looks like it took all day to draw and paint.

Sure wish we could zoom in sometimes. ;)

brilliant!

So much going on here.

Is this the most undeniable example of a “Wallace” strip based on a great work of art? So much detail… even Mrs. Mac’s posture, turning back to gaze at someone? Something? [I also love that she is the stand-in for Zoroaster!] I am “guilty” of imagining references to such things where the artist did not intend such. Yeah, I’ve seen “Guernica” and “The Fall of Icarus” in “Wallace the Brave” too….

This happens every time Snug Harbor Elementary has a field trip to Athens, Georgia.

Stinkin’ BRILLIANT!!!

Absolutely breathtaking Mr. Will.

Is that a yo-yo and Spud’s hand or a teabag?

Will, I hope you’re planning to publish a volume of your panorama drawings someday…they’re absolutely delightful!

This picture is indeed worth a thousand stories. Well done, again Mr. Will Henry (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

I would love to have this panel as a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle…like some of those super-busy European cartoon puzzles…

I’d love to have a black and white poster version of this, to color it. I mean, it’s spectacular this way, but would be fun to do it myself.

This is truly a MASTERPIECE!

I love the kid playing hacky-sack!

What might Wallace be holding?

Kid with arm in a cast plays cat’s cradle with Big Gunther.

so are we gonna get the chance to buy a giant HD poster of this panel or what?

I loved this! It took me seconds to recognize what inspired Mr. Henry’s wonderful tableau. (I was an art history major.)

“The School of Athens” is my favorite painting! I recognized the inspiration immediately. Thanks for this!

Can’t love this enough

Seagull at window wishes to join the Latin club…to learn to dance salsa!