About Little Scottie
Creators
Scott Winer and
Todd Pickrell developed the idea for "Little Scottie" after a dinner at Zio's in Olathe, Kansas. While waiting for their food, Todd drew a series of Crayon cartoons on the paper tablecloth, depicting Scott at different stages of life--infancy, childhood and present day. Each drawing included the glasses and goatee he was sporting at the time.
From those, the illustration of Scott as a potbellied child with an ill-fitting shirt stood out as the funniest. Within a month, the comic was up and running.
Timeline
August 2010
"Little Scottie" returns online and in
The University Daily Kansan. The comic runs twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays, for the fall semester.
June 2010
After only two weeks, the UDK invites "Little Scottie" to appear in its weekly summer Kansan issues, published every Wednesday. The schedule for online publishing is adjusted to parallel the print schedule.
May 2010
Six full-color "Little Scottie" comics appear in the UDK's Jayhawker Magazine, which replaces the traditional yearbook The Jayhawker. Once KU finals are over, "Little Scottie" resumes for the summer with online-only color comics available every Monday.
January 2010
"Little Scottie" returns for a second semester in the UDK, now appearing three times a week.
August 2009
"Little Scottie" returns online and makes its print debut in
The University Daily Kansan, the student newspaper at The University of Kansas in Lawrence. The comic runs twice a week in
The University Daily Kansan for the fall semester.
March 2009
A new three-panel black-and-white version of the comic, simply titled "Little Scottie," premieres online Friday, March 13, 2009. The comic follows Little Scottie as he moves to New York to help save television. It runs for five strips.
February 2009
"The Uncensored Adventures of Little Scottie," a crude and less civilized four-panel vertical black-and-white comic strip with some of the same characters as the original comic, premieres February 7, 2009. New strips are posted several times a week for 2-3 weeks.
October 2008
"The Adventures of Little Scottie," a weekly full-color multi-panel web comic, premieres. The comic's five-month run includes 24 episodes from October 24, 2008, to February 22, 2009.
