Carving the Comics

Carving comic strip characters has always been appealing to carvers. Many versions of Coyote and Roadrunner, for example, have been carved, as well as Disney characters. One of my all-time favorite comic strips is Bob Thaves's Frank & Ernest (maybe because puns appeal to my linguistic interests!).

Anyway, I decided some time ago to carve a likeness of Frank and Ernest, inspired by a comic strip from April 2017.  My youngest grandson loves playing with them!

"Delmer's" Cousin

Here are my latest carvings. The hillbilly is based on Mike Shipley's "Delmer," but he is smaller, and of course, not up to Mike's quality -- but I'm working at it! The pig is from Christine Coffman's design.  (The spittoon came from a hobby store.)