pro junior
Pro Junior
Kitchen Sink October 1971
In 1958, as a twelve-year-old sixth-grade student in Baltimore, Don Dohler created a nameless but distinct cartoon character with cork stoppers in his ears, two sideways teeth, and eyeballs with white irises and black sclera (the normally white part of the eye). Originally doodled in his school notebooks, Dohler later used the character as the mascot to his homemade comic book, Wild, which he created with his best friend Mark Tarka. Dohler and Tarka produced five issues of the hand-drawn, single-copy Wild in 1959 and ’60. In 1961 Dohler and Tarka relaunched Wild as a Mad-inspired fanzine, renumbering the title from #1 and printing about 60 copies of its early issues.