Al Wiseman

After Wiseman worked in advertising, he became an assistant to Hank Ketcham on Dennis the Menace. Wiseman and writer Fred Toole worked on the Dennis the Menace comic book from 1953 into the 1960s.^[2]

Al's granddaughter, Aliza, claims that many of the characters from Dennis the Menace were created by Al.^[3]

He had his own feature, Punky, in the Dennis the Menace comic books.^[4]

Charley Jones Laugh Book Wiseman did covers for Charley Jones Laugh Book, contributed to George Crenshaw's Belvedere and briefly assisted on the Yogi Bear Sunday page .^[2] He also did children's books, such as We Learn to Play (1954).

A Dennis the Menace story by Wiseman and Toole was reprinted in the Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly collection, The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Abrams, 2009).^[5]

• Aliza Wiseman on Al Wiseman
• Fred Hembeck on Al Wiseman