Career
After Wiseman worked in advertising, he became an assistant to Hank Ketcham on Dennis the Menace. Wiseman and writer Fred Toole worked on the Dennis the Menace comic book from 1953 into the 1960s. Al's granddaughter, Aliza, claims that many of the characters from Dennis the Menace were created by Al.
He had his own feature, Punky, in the Dennis the Menace comic books. Wiseman did covers for , contributed to George Crenshaw's Belvedere and briefly assisted on the Yogi Bear Sunday page. He also did children's books, such as We Learn to Play (1954).
A Dennis the Menace story by Wiseman and Toole was reprinted in the Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly collection, The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics (Abrams, 2009). Wiseman's clean line was an influence on several cartoonists, including Jaime Hernandez, Gilbert Hernandez, Al Gordon and Daniel Clowes.
