Hank Ketchams Complete Dennis the Menace 1961-1962 - Hank Ketcham

Dennis vaults into the 1960s with his anarchic spirit still intact. Forthose unfamiliar with the newspaper strip, these books are a series of unrelatedone-panel gags (with the exception of one week-long story involving Dennis'smild-mannered grandpa), but what gags! Hank Ketcham is legendary for being oneof the most exquisitely skilled cartoonists of all time, and each and everyblack-and-white panel is a small masterpiece of design and draftsmanship.Dennis the Menace 1961-1962 features Dennis's long-suffering parents, theWilsons, his dog Ruff, his best pal Joey, his nemesis Margaret, and a seeminglyendless parade of babysitters, as well as hapless shopowners, policemen,teachers, and family friends, all of whom come to realize that it's Dennis'sworld... they just live in it! Ketcham drew Dennis the Menace from 1951to 1994, when he retired and let his assistant take over the strip. The sixthvolume of Hank Ketcham's Complete Dennis the Menace publishes everysingle panel strip from 1959 and 1962 in one handsome brick of a hardcover. Thisbook rests as easily on a grandfather's shelf as a granddaughter's, but itespecially recaptures the rambunctious youth of the baby-boomergeneration.