Curtis Wilkins

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Curtis Wilkins is star character of the comic strip Curtis created by Ray Billingsley.

Contents 1 Curtis' profile 2 Favorite activities 3 Friends and enemies 4 Girls

[edit] Curtis' profile

Curtis Wilkins is a feisty 11-year old, who lives in the inner city with his annoying baby brother named Barry, whom Curtis regards as a brat while others regard Barry as a charming young boy, and his parents named Greg and Diane.

Curtis always goes to Greg to either beg him for money or to get him to quit smoking, with not much success at either. Curtis always plays rap music real loud which prompts Greg to complain very much about it. Greg has a real hatred towards rap music but he loves to listen to Motown music, which Curtis ironically hates very much.

[edit] Favorite activities

Curtis always enjoys going to Gunther's Barbershop, where Gunther, the owner of the shop, can't even get Curtis' name right (although he usually calls him another name that starts with the letter "C") and shares with him jokes and stories about the time when he used to hang around with celebrities and shows Curtis photographs of what he claimed to be him and the celebrity with a large thumb blocking the view of the other person in the photo.

Another one of Curtis' favorite places is a local record store that is always disguised as another type of establishment (i.e. "The Don King School of Etiquette" among others) because the local parents constantly torch the place for the type of music it sells.

Curtis also loves to go to the movies where he watches gory, horror movies alongside of Barry who tags along even though he doesn't approve of them.

[edit] Friends and enemies

Curtis' best friend is Gunk, a strange, cross-eyed, magical character, who comes from a faraway, fictional place called Flyspeck Island. Gunk would visit with Curtis once in a while but he's not without his pet Flyspeck Island chameleon who tags along for the ride and make Curtis' life miserable with his highly mischievous antics.

Curtis often tangles with his three adversaries, Mrs. Nelson, Derrick, and "Onion". Mrs. Nelson is his teacher whom is at odds with him for his antics, his bad grades, and his daydreaming. Derrick and "Onion" are bullies who call Curtis "Wimpkins" and plagued him with Yo' Mama jokes as well as forcefully extorting him of his lunch money.

[edit] Girls

He also is part of a love-triangle with two girls; Michelle and Chutney.

Michelle is a good-looking, but rather egotisical, 13-year-old who Curtis is completely enamored with, but she is often visibly annoyed with his presence. Curtis likes to call her Shelly, but she does not like to be called that, yet repeated requests for him to stop calling her that haven't worked.

Chutney is a smaller girl who is not quite as pretty as Michelle but is closer to Curtis's age and is way less egotistic and snooty compared to her. She is completely enamored by Curtis, but he regards her as only a friend at best, although she is always there to listen to his problems.

This love triangle could be a prime example of preteen love, where the boy loves one girl who doesn't love him, yet another girl loves that boy and the boy doesn't like that girl.