Science Adventurers. Philanthropists. Dandies. Playboys. Thespians. Desert wanderers. Broadcast personalities. Master swordsmen.
Many have tried to pigeon hole these three, all at once known and utterly mysterious gents since they burst onto the scene they CREATED almost 94 years ago!
What is well known to date, however, has been debated, studied and mulled over by the greatest minds in HISTORY!
MOST say that in 1914, on a drunken whim, they ventured into the deepest regions of the Swiss Alps to put its neutrality to the test (there had not been a fist fight in that country since 1815)!
While unable to provoke any of the peace loveing Swiss natives into fighting each other, they did piss off Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who was hiding out in The Baron's rented chalet (which as it turned out belonged to the now infamous CAPTAIN DREADNAUGHT, the 'Toonists' eventual arch nemesis and a man whom the three would encounter numerous times throughout their colourful careers).
Lenin fled Switzerland back to Russia in a huff and, as the history books detail, vented his frustrations on the Russian empire.
Predictably, our stout hearted heroes refused to let their predicament get the better of the, and with nought but time on their hands and a bold creative itch to SCRATCH, they set about redefining the very notion of pop culture ITSELF!
Firstly, the three intrepid adventurers grew mighty and luxuriant BEARDS.
Then, with the combination of their powerful good looks, superior artistry and a keen sense of drama, they prevented the Hun armies from invading their adopted home during BOTH World Wars, and then quickly went on to invent every subculture EVER (yes, even goths), the comic book form and prog rock.
Finally, mere NANOSECONDS later, in a final expression of raw creative OMNIPOTENCE, the global movement known as WAYWARDISM was born!
Historians, critics and even Kings have suggested an arcane significance in this statistically improbable confluence of unrelated events- a grand, and as yet unknowable, SCHEME!
Since those fateful months in the most neutral country in the world, these dynamites of industry, ink and inevitability have regularly met to compare egos, facial topiary and their innate ladykilling abilities.
And from each ever more memorable meeting another gossamer thread is tied and another astonishing page in the story and influence of Waywardism is etched into TIME ITSELF!
Join us now as we, the Wayfarin' Wayward 'Toonists, bestow upon YOU, our adoring PUBLIC, our latest gift to POSTERITY, a titanic excursion into art-nirvana which has come to be known as The Swingin' Jukebox Jam!
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