European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday february 18, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 9 Over Here. Quibble a part of me always will sense of humor is the most important Quality a person can have. Mukini people i Tuuli is important in me. Cartoonist does t quibble he loves quibble writer qui Hulcy the comic slip Soldier Learned very Ihms he knows Ghoul the from an officer Odds enough. Thai s because his creator is Scoll Wood a retired a Rev Heute Nani colonel there s a Little hit of quibble in Wood said and a whole lot of me in quibble quibbles and the gang of clump. Flaky and sol. Mom Hil inc cartoon Section of the stars and stripes More than five ears ago. The Only publication where the strip appears. Now. Wood said. The lackadaisical Warrior is a per Ranem part of his life. I a enjoyed quibble. I love quibble. Quibble s a Par of me always will Wood said. I Wahl to continue doing that As Long As i m Able to while. Even if i can i Chew an Lhing except with gum Leech. I still want to do Wood is trying to give quibble a much larger audience through san Dialion. But the Odds Are not Good. More than cartoons arc submitted to Sindi Calora each month. Wood said. Only one or two Ever make it. And that s after a two year Wail. Syndication would require a transition for quibble similar to the one Wood has been making since he retired from military life six months ago after a h3- car career that included a tour during the Vietnam War. The handwriting is on inc Wood said citing what he called a declining interest in military humor. Quite frankly. I do Sec the possibility that quibble will change la could be just As simple As gelling out of inc army and assuming another Bui even if the bespectacled quibble joined the ranks of the civilian world As a reporter or police Man he still would possess inc same patriotic and Down to Earth qualities his creator said. Afler his retirement. Wood settled in the Stutt Gart. West Germany area and let his hair grow mod Cranely Long for the first Lime in his life. Although he makes comparisons Between himself and his cartoon character. Quibble possesses none of the rugged outdoor looks of his creator who drives a jeep and looks like a candidate for a Marlboro and. Wood is not paid for the cartoon that appears in the stars and stripes but he docs receive a commis Sion from his German publisher for the eight quibble books and posters sold in stripes bookstores. Wood was Only 9 when he tried to sell a cartoon to the saturday evening Post. I was crushed when they turned me Down he said. As a Young Man. Wood worked at an advertising Agency where he created silent Eagle an Indian scout who Rode his White Buffalo ahead of Santa c Laus on Christmas eve to make sure Santa would know where to enter each Home. Silent Eagle however was no match for Rudolph the red nosed rein Deer and Wood eventually entered the military. He continued to Doodle and make caricatures for friends. It was t until he had been in West. I developed his personal before i Eien knew what he looked like. And Finall one Day bin. Germany for a year Hal he said " k. It s time to do c company company b was inc original cartoon concept bul one character kept coming to mind one who was patriotic and professional bul also frail and some what afraid of the dark. Wood said. I did t have him pictured at Wood said. I developed his personality before i even came close to knowing what he looked like. And finally one Day Bingo it appeared. His name came to me with no background while driving Back Home after signing a contract with stripes. Wood became petrified about running out of ideas. But the ideas started coming again and the process has grown much easier he said. He can now begin at 8 . On a saturday and have a week s Worth of cartoons in the mail i rec hours later Wood said. He normally slavs about a week ahead. Wood has no set routine. Sometimes he draws the figures in the four boxes and later goes Back and fills in the words. Like other cartoon characters. Quibble has undergone Subtle changes since his debut on oct. 29, 1984. As a cartoonist becomes More confident with his character and draws them on a More regular basis Wood said the lines become More confident and More quibble gradually has developed a More rounded head and a thinner neck and the eyes of his cohorts arc belter defined in addition the humor has grown More Subtle than the Abbott and costello approach Wood began Wilh. And More changes Are on the was. He said. But you re never going to please Ever Bod " when it comes to humor. Wood said. If you Ever go with the idea thai everybody ingoing to laugh at this you re going to he greatly disappointed because everybody s sense of humor is different. But if everybody had the same sense of humor you would Only hav e one comic Many of his readers Are students in Middle schools. Wood . Lie visits classrooms in the Stuttgart area speaking and demonstrating How he draws quibble Wood likes to read outlaw. Peanuts. Blondie. Garfield and the Par Side but Calvin and Lobbes by Bill Watterson is his favorite cartoon strip. To me that Guy has done something that no one else has Wood said. He s taken a kid s imagination and Pul in on paper and allowed the audience to be a pan of Hal Little kid. To me. It s absolutely fascinating and i took a tremendous amount of imagination to do something like Wood takes his own cartoon strip seriously. A sense of humor is the most important Quality a person can have he said. Making people laugh is important to me. I just Hope i have inc Lime and Energy 10 keep it up for a Long time. It s a Way of
