We were so awed by this possibility that we asked Highlights editor Judy Burke if it held any water.
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“I’ve theorized they’re two sides of the same kid,” he said. But according to former coordinating editor Rich Wallace, the two might actually be part of a Fight Club-style twist. By 1995, they were simply two unrelated boys. Later on, editors for Highlights indicated the two were brothers, but not twins. When Goofus and Gallant began their broadly-drawn moral plays in the 1950s, they were depicted as identical twins. Brown later stated that all of Myers's 13 grandchildren helped inform the characters. “Kent gets great glee out of claiming to be Goofus," he said. In 1995, Kent Brown Jr., the Myers’s grandson, told the Los Angeles Times that he was the inspiration for Goofus and that his cousin, Garry Myers III, was the model for Gallant. Highlights turned into a family enterprise, with the Myers’s children and grandchildren having a hand in its publication. Goofus and Gallant debuted in their magazine in 1948 by 1952, they had morphed into two regular kids. No one is quite sure why Myers opted for the fairy tale aesthetic, although one theory is that he wanted to depict bad behavior rather than bad children.Īfter Myers and wife Caroline started Highlights for six- to 12-year-old readers in 1946, they were eventually able to acquire the rights to the strip. While the twosome were already displaying their radically different approaches to life, Myers depicted them as fanciful creatures with pointed ears and curly-toed shoes. Myers debuted the strip, then known as the The G-Twins, in Children’s Activities magazine in 1938.
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Goofus and Gallant were the creation of Garry Cleveland Myers, a child psychologist and popular syndicated parental advice columnist.