There has never been a television show about a disabled teenager. John Callahan, controversial syndicated cartoonist, was not going to take that sitting down. He created “Pelswick,” a groundbreaking ...

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 is an animated television series produced by Nelvana for CBC Television in Canada and the Nickelodeon cable channel in the United States. The series is about a teenage boy who uses a ...