In 1955, Gene Deitch embarked on a daily comic strip for United Features Syndicate that he hoped would become his life's work. One of the most unusual strips of the decade, Terr'ble Thompson was about a very odd little boy who had his Werld Hedd Quarters in a tree house and was regarded far and wide as the bravest, fiercest, most-best hero of all-time.
Less than a year into the strip, Deitch received an offer he couldn't refuse: to become...