The Lost Adventures of “Calloway the Castaway” Episode 15

Here, you can see my older brother experimenting more with his 1979 comic strip “Calloway the Castaway,” changing the drawing style a little and adding more background details. I’m not sure how much the casual reader noticed when he/she read “Calloway the Castaway” in our local weekly newspaper, though. 

Because I sometimes watched my brother draw the comic strips, I could usually see the original in its larger form where the smaller details would be easier to notice. On a computer screen today, you can enlarge the picture if you want to, but you couldn’t do that with a newspaper. If the details or letters were too small or smudged or faint, then you had to squint.  Sometimes you just had to guess what was on the newspaper page, especially if it had been raining outside when you picked up your newspaper.

Haha. Newspapers. I wonder if they’re still around. I think I saw one in some guy’s driveway a few days ago.

For more context, go to The Lost Adventures of “Calloway the Castaway” Episode 1!

And come back next week for The Lost Adventures of “Calloway the Castaway” Episode 16.