The First Cartoon Series, 1975.
Few cartoonists have a record of their very first serious work.
Fortunately, Wes Oleszewski has his first attempt at a cartoon series, and thought that some folks may find it fun to see how the whole thing got started. Forage to the Bottom of the Sea was Wes first attempt at writing a serious cartoon strip. The idea came to him while he was supposed to be paying attention in his 11th grade electronics class, and that evening he went home and started to draw a spoof of the 1960s television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea . The cartoon has its roots in a friendly competition of rocket building between Wes, who called his fictitious company Cruman Aircraft after the famed manufacturer Grumman , and his childhood best buddies Jim Brink and Ken Wolff, who were calling them selves North American Rocksick and McDonald Dogless respectively. Featured in the Forage cartoon is a small submarine with a crew of ants that travels to Wes old neighborhood and engages in mayhem with his old buddies Jim and Ken.