Fade in to a youngster racing through city streets. He accelerates past an open manhole and zooms over a bridge before coming to a screeching halt. It’s Pelswick, and his vehicle is a wheelchair. That ...

John Callahan is in his wheelchair today, where he’s been since age 21, when an auto accident in Long Beach rendered him quadriplegic. In his 1990 memoir, “Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot: The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pelswick Eggert happens to be crippled. Or, as he puts it, "permanently seated." Same difference maybe. But for 13-year-old Pelswick, differences don't matter. In his motorized ...

When John Callahan sees his reflection in a window, he can hardly believe he is in a wheelchair. “After a couple years or so,” Callahan said, “you don’t think of it. And so you don’t feel different.

Pelswick Eggert is a 13-year-old quadriplegic who uses a motorized wheelchair. In almost every other way, though, he is a typical cartoon character. He can be funny. He can be gross. He has friends ...

Is a boy in a wheelchair funny? John Callahan, a very funny man who happens to use a wheelchair, thinks so. Callahan is a cartoonist from Portland, Oregon. He's the creator of "Pelswick," a half-hour ...

Pelswick tries to get Kate's new boyfriend to stand up for himself; Julie gets increasingly frustrated with Sandra's outrageous clothing; Gram-Gram and Agnes go on dates. Almost everyone in town gets ...