The squirrel represents the cartoonist's inner voice... a voice that verbalizes everything that the cartoonist wants to say but is afraid to do so.
Page is not afraid to put real events from his life into the strip. Everything from divorce, emotional distress as well as life changing triumphs are all fair game.
Read more about Bob The Squirrel: Cast of Characters, Squirrelosophy, Publications
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“For all the boredom the straight life brings, its not too bad.”
—Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter and director, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)
“A squirrel leaping from bough to bough, and making the wood but one wide tree for his pleasure, fills the eye not less than a lion,is beautiful, self-sufficing, and stands then and there for nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)