Artwork © 2010, Rick Grimes.

GRIMES: "This is the only completed work in this favoured panel format for 'Weird Dick & Friends' stories. There are several strips, one pagers , idea notes and initial story pages, but few using and none complete in this format. A sort of 'LIFE' magazine approach. Although a little at the margins, Stinely is an essential character in many of these.

"His head enshrining family furniture set, with us from before my birth. His unusual name a conflation of '60s television writer Stirling Silliphant, a familiar on screen sight in my childhood and the oddly named and rather obscure actor, Shepperd Strudwick, (Perry Mason, Twilight Zone, "The Monitors"), noticed at the time.

"The middle panels of the 2nd page are a bit less well-sculpted than they should have been. The story more of an introduction. I wasn't used to moving him around in a story landscape yet--- some of these types of complex-looking characters are a little harder to draw repeatedly.

"I was stupid enough to send it to Charlton Comics for the inevitable bewildered reply. Guess I thought they'd let me draw the Flintstones. (Aim low).

"Never published, it predates and dispels the 'myth' of his death in the self-parodic "Sicky Claws". He never says much, except in a very specifically oblique manner. But is still alive and well,and living in the edges of my mind." -- RG (June 10th, 2009).

Artwork © 2009, Rick Grimes.

- FURTHER READING (1): Rick's Weird Dick & The Professor characters also feature in the following comics / stories: Sicky Claws' related characters also feature in the following comics / stories: "Weird Dick and The Professor" (1976): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album3.2.html + "Daymares" (1976): ): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.3.html + "Daymares" character drawings: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.4.html + Kubert Art School 1977 letterhead assignment: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.6.html + Kubert Art School 1977 book assignment: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.7.html + Kubert Art School 1977 wash assignment: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.8.html + "Sicky Claws Conquers The Weird Dicks" (1981): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album3.7.html + "Head Chez" (1981) http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album3.6.html + "Stinely Stellwick - That Mahogany Chickenhead" (1981 + sketches): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.13.html

- FURTHER READING (2): Rick's Sicky Claws' related characters also feature in the following comics / stories: 1966/67 childhood drawing feat. Mudda Mudda: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.2.html + "Sicky Claws Conquers The Weird Dicks" (1981): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album3.7.html + 'Cow Sow' biscuit dough from 1981: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.15.html +  'Sicky Claws' cookies (1982??): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.31.html + "Neurotic Expiations In A Nut's Hell" B&W original (1986): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.17.html + "The Puzz Fundles" (1984-86): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album3.8.html + "Maniac Island" (1986): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album3.9.html + "Ladies Items" feat. Mudda Mudda (1994): http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.24.html + 1997 tooled leather of Nudolph: http://www.rickgrimesfansite.net/photo_album1.26.html