I grew up loving airplanes from television. And we had a lot of World War II veterans when I was a kid growing up who had flown planes.
And I loved comic books and one of my favorite comics was Johnny Cloud, Navajo Ace which flew a P-51 Mustang. And I dedicated a book to him. And I would draw model airplanes, every kind of airplanes, and I know all of the different airplane models and, you know what — from the F22 fighter plane way back to the Wright Brothers’ plane. And these pilots know them too, only I draw them, they fly them.
And when we all got together in Oshkosh, it was like just a feeding frenzy for airplane geeks. And, in fact, I got hollered at when I was drawing the B-17. I was like, “Oh, this is so cool. This is great. Whoa!” And I had this intern working for me and she yells over across the studio. She says, “Bob, Bob, don’t geek out on me. Stop it.” So, anyway, so we hope you guys like the book as much as we loved making it.
