Today in Comics History, March 24: Happy birthday, Bill Wray!

Hooray hooray hooray hooray! / Let's praise the birthday of Bill Wray! (Best sung while parading around Bill Wray's house at 6 AM, beating on a bass drum.) Bill is an animator (The Ren & Stimpy Show, Samurai Jack, The Mighty B!), cartoonist (again, The Ren & Stimpy Show, plus MAD's "Monroe" strip, Cracked, Super Mario Bros., and much more), and landscape painter. He co-created, with Mike Mignola, Hellboy, Jr. And here's how that happened!:


"The Creation of Hellboy, Jr." from Hellboy, Jr., Halloween Special one-shot (Dark Horse, October 1997), co-script by Bill Wray; co-script, pencils, and inks by Mike Mignola; colors by Dave Stewart; letters by John Costanza
Happy birthday, Bill!