People often ask me about the characters I’m about to draw here. They ask me if I ever knew anybody quite like George and Harold, and the answer of course is yes, because I knew myself. George and Harold are both based on me when I was a kid.
They started out as different sides of my personality because like most people, I can be quite different at different times. Sometimes I was very outgoing and wild and crazy and other times I was very shy and quiet. So I gave all my shy and quiet characteristics to this guy and all my wild and crazy characteristics to this guy here.
And so that’s how they started out. George and Harold are a lot like me. They make comics as well when they’re in school and they sometimes get in trouble like me. And they use their imagination and they make comics and they have this wonderful friendship. So this is George and Harold.
