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"Roy A., Inc."

A serialized comic strip by Tom Wentzel

Roy Able Walking



My first comic strip drawn for the Arizona Daily Wildcat was "Roy A., Inc." The serialized strip began in September 1990 and ran twice a week through August 1991.

This was actually the second incarnation of the strip, the first being a series of ten one-page cartoons I drew from 1977 to 1979 for a small independent publication called "Free Lunch" ("TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a Free Lunch") while attending Bates College. That first strip provided the core concept for the new one (redrawn as episode numbers 23 to 47), which was then fleshed out with more characters and story threads.

Chocolate Frosted Oat Blobs

But talking about it won't do it justice. Click on the links below to experience "Roy A., Inc." for yourself.


--Sorry, comics are temporarily unavailable.-- --Tom W., Jan 3, 2010

Roy A., Inc., 1977-1979

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11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
There Are A Few Of Them, Yes...


--Sorry, comics are temporarily unavailable.-- --Tom W., Jan 3, 2010

Roy A., Inc., 1990-1991

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40
41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68
There Are A Few Of Them, Yes...



--Sorry, comics are temporarily unavailable.-- --Tom W., Jan 3, 2010

After the strip ended in August 1991 and was replaced by "Boxed In," the characters appeared in the new strip on a few occasions:

Thanksgiving, 1991

July 4th, 1992

Election Day, 1994



Origins and Sketches

RAI Bates 04s Goo

An early sketch of the Goo, circa 1969

"Mini-Mac" and Roy debut in a 1975 cartoon

A pencil sketch of episode #28, 1991

Conceptual sketches of President Nancy Ann Cianci and Niels Nielson, 1991
See episodes #50-52, 54-58


See more of Tom's cartooning:

Selected "Boxed In" and editorial cartoons

Anti-tobacco cartooning

Archives, 1995-1998 (as scanned by the Arizona Daily Wildcat)


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