My most ambitious and long-lasting endeavour is without doubt my comic-albums with funny animal characters, the Family Gnuff series. Though initially invented before my licensed work for hire, it came in publishing sequence to parallel my Woody Woodpecker stories and has its roots both in the Donald Duck stories from Carl Barks and my attempts to handle Woody Woodpecker in a more recognizable contemporary setting. In fact I have remade some of the stories with different sets of characters, so what I actually do is to tell my own stories, and then the characters at hand are adjusted to be used to that end. Still there is a overall distinct local Danish mood to the Gnuff stories that in my own opinion makes the series prolific enough to stand out in comparison to my use of other characters.
This story was not the first I made with the Gnuffs but the one to be regarded as the episode of introduction, and it was the first one to hit the print, both in the local co-printed Woody Woodpecker-comic as well as the American funny animal monthly magazine "Critters"…
Kim Thompson from Fantagraphics gave me the chance to be printed in USA, and he is also responsible for the translation of this first instalment…