Fight on, Bacon Boy, fight on

From the Associated Press article about a 10-year old who created the Bacon Boy comic-book crime fighter:
Hermiston [Oregon] youth who created Bacon Boy superhero dies of leukemia:

Austin Winters, the 10-year-old creator of Bacon Boy, a superhero who shoots bacon bits from one hand and grease from other, has lost his battle with leukemia.

Austin created his bacon strip-shaped crime fighter after painter Frank Etxaniz began visiting Portland’s Doernbecher Children’s Hospital as part of the Children’s Healing Art Project.

Etxaniz challenged Austin to dream up a character to draw. Austin came up with Bacon Boy, who along with his friend, Sgt. Sausage, fights the evil Fry Guy and his minions, Knife and Fork.

Austin made drawings of his characters, created iron-on images, did animation and shaped Bacon Boy in clay.

Also, related to Bacon Boy:

• Austin’s news obits in the Hermiston Herald and the Pendleton East-Oregonian.
• Oregonian article about Austin by Katy Muldoon from June 2008.

(via @agentwells)

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