Influences
Weissman has cited the Japanese "super deformed" tradition, Hal Roach's Our Gang shorts, Shirley Temple movies, Abbott and Costello, and Sunday morning TV as influences; though his primary influence is Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts. He also mentions cartoonists Dan Clowes and Mike Allred as influences on his approach to color (which tends to be simple two-color treatments).
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