Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Wallace Wood: Against the Grain, part 17
On the return trip, driving through northern Ohio, they noted a town named Bucyrus. “We thought it was kind of a funny name,” said Tatjana. “Maybe we didn’t even pass through the town but saw a marker for the town.” A center for the manufacture of copper kettles and highway-construction machinery, Bucyrus then had a population of 9,727. With Woody’s penchant for making long lists of possible future comics characters, he mentally added Bucyrus to his lists, gave it a twist, and the name became, years later, Bucky Ruckus, the title character of his 1967 NEA Christmas strip, “Bucky’s Christmas Caper.”
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