Patrick the Wolf Boy Wedding Special

    (Blindwolf, 2003)
™ and © Blindwolf Studio

A husband glances through the latest issue of his wife’s gardening magazine, as he goes through the mail, and, not being a gardener himself, would swear that the same issue is mailed out month after month.

Patrick the Wolf Boy is much like that gardening magazine. In every issue, regardless of circumstance, he’s always chasing squirrels, speaking in one-syllable grunts, and just barely staying out of trouble. And the typical cover motif is a 3/4 shot of a running Patrick, right foot always forward. Frickin’ always.

So what?

Amid what could be construed by the untrained eye as boring repetition lies a quirky and innocent charm that’s always likeable. And funny. After all, how many times have readers seen Snoopy slip into his Red Baron fantasy or Dagwood plow into the mailman or Sarge pummel Beetle Bailey to a pulp? Somehow, it’s always good for at least a chuckle, the kind that Baltazar has come close to mastering in his relatively short career.

So Patrick’s doing his usual thing, this time at a wedding (Baltazar’s own, it appears!), and that’s just fine. So check it out; it’s easy to find; just look for the cover with Patrick running.

— Jim Johnson
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