I was reading one of my favorite blogs on illustration, Illustration Art, and I stumbled on this tangent comment; it was so profound that it blew me away. And, well, I had to share:

"For me, the interesting part was Trachte's motivation. For 50 years, Trachte drew the dreary comic strip Henry-- a simple minded strip whose success was based on the fact that it took less effort to read than to skip over."