Toon Zone Interviews Steve Purcell About "Sam & Max the Animated Series

Cartoonist Steve Purcell's resume reads like a cult nerd hit-list. When he was a boy, he would parody his younger brother's comic strips, eventually creating Sam and Max, a duo of freelance detectives.

Sam is a man-sized dog shamus in a shabby suit and Max was...well, you'll see what Max is. During the 1980's black-and-white comics boom kicked off by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Purcell turned Sam and Max into a minor indie comics hit, published alongside Steve Moncuse's Fish Police. He then took a job with LucasArts, sneaking Sam and Max into the background as he provided artwork for their famed adventure games. Eventually, he began drawing a regular comic strip for the newsletters packed in with the games. As they grew in popularity, they got their own adventure game that still elicits wistful memories from old-school computer game fans everywhere.

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