Turkey Day with the Wolves

Happy Turkey Day!  Here's a new Quixote Coyote strip that doesn't actually feature Quixote Coyote:

Again, the biggest inspiration on this strip was the Floyd Gottfredson Mickey Mouse strips as well as the original Ub Iwerks Mickey Mouse cartoons.  One of the key characters in both of those, was the recurring villain, Pegleg Pete (later on just referred to simply as Pete, who nowadays is rarely portrayed as a villain).  Pete was always the opposite of Mickey, in that he was a big strong bully who liked to push people around, but always folded when courage was called for.  In the very first Quixote Coyote strip, I introduced a big Wolf guy who was bullying a little pig.  I originally didn't have any actual intentions for the character, but after thinking about it a little bit, I decided to make this wolf guy into a recurring antagonist.  I named him Waldo because I'm stuck in that whole alliteration sensibility.  I know.

I also thought it would be a neat idea to have Quixote's potential Love Interest also be the little sister of Quixote's Rival.  So, Wanda and Waldo are sister and brother.  They're both adults, but haven't moved out of their parents house yet.  They don't get along very well, considering that Wanda is a loving, caring individual, and Waldo is a jerk who likes to beat people up.

Oh, there was also a lengthy internal debate as to what Waldo would be talking on in the strip.  Should he have an old style, two-piece phone to further heighten the homage to classic comics?  Or should he have a land line?  Or an 80s Cinderblock Cellphone?  In the end, I settled on a modern cellphone, both as a way to show that the strip is set in an equivalent to our modern era, and also because it's easy to draw.  Really easy.

Anyway, happy Turkey Day!  Eat up!