Nationally known illustrator from Oklahoma never stopped drawing
In 1972, fifth-grader Mike Wimmer 's pencil drawings of Chicago Bears ' linebacker Dick Butkus and superhero Spider-Man fetched 10 cents each at Muskogee 's Pershing Elementary.
A few years earlier, he had sat cross-legged on the floor of Sadler 's neighborhood grocery.
Wimmer gazed at the long sheet of paper taped to the wall as butcher and once-aspiring comic strip artist Buck Sadler gave life to Bat...
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