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Pee-wee.

Pee-wee.

What a big adventure we had.

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Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman. All drawings by me.

In 1986, a curious show debuted on TV: Pee-wee’s Playhouse. The show may have been new to the children that television network executives intended it for, but the host, Pee-wee Herman, was well-known to hipsters, fans of retro kitsch and the B-52s, and those who’d watched Pee-wee evolve from the creativ…

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