die geschichte vom iiihh (the story of the iiihh)

in the eighties a children’s newspaper printed an illustration and asked the young readers to write stories that came to their minds when they saw it. this is the story that a little girl called stefanie raum wrote. i illustrated it again to close the circle.
it is about willi, who likes to eat chewing gum. the old gum he always sticks under his bed, where his mother finds it while cleaning his room. she shouts „iiihh“ and tells him to get rid of it or he will not go to the carnival party he is about to go to. when he grabs for the lump of gum, it screams „ouch!“…