Tim Hensley

Tim Hensley (born August 17, 1966, in Bloomington, Indiana)[1] is an American alternative cartoonist.

Hensley's most notable works are Wally Gropius published by Fantagraphics Books[2] in 2010 and Sir Alfred No.

[3] In 1989 Hensley discovered alternative comics and a few years later started to focus on becoming a cartoonist.

Hensley asked Clowes if he would be interested in doing the cover art to an album he was working on for his band, Victor Banana.

[4] Clowes did the cover art and then asked Hensley if he would be interested in creating a soundtrack to one of the stories in his upcoming one-man anthology Eightball.

Left: From the cover of Tubby #5 (1953). Right: Hensley’s Hitchcock. Hensley invokes the Little Lulu style associated with John Stanley and Irving Tripp .
Hensley modeled the cover for Sir Alfred No. 3 on a cover by DC Comics The Adventures of Bob Hope #6 (1950).