Doing caricatures in the style of the strip requires some compromise. Wheaton has no features I can really exaggerate. If we were using Jimmy Durante, or Nixon, it’d be easy. In fact, I once had to veto using Wil Wheaton and Jonathan Frakes in the same gag. I explained to John that, simplified into the style of WD, two short haired guys with trim beards would look too much alike. We changed the gag and used LeVar Burton instead of Wheaton that time.
Doing caricatures in the style of the strip requires some compromise. Wheaton has no features I can really exaggerate. If we were using Jimmy Durante, or Nixon, it’d be easy. In fact, I once had to veto using Wil Wheaton and Jonathan Frakes in the same gag. I explained to John that, simplified into the style of WD, two short haired guys with trim beards would look too much alike. We changed the gag and used LeVar Burton instead of Wheaton that time.