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FILTER RESULTS ►If only Beth’s mother were here, to point out the warning signs
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Funky Winkerbean, 5/4/13 Oh, man, Darrin’s bio-dad is just not going to give up on his mission of assholery, is he? I have literally no idea what he thinks is going to happen if he goes public with the knowledge that Dead Lisa had sex as a teenager and had a kid and gave it [...]Show More Summary
Let’s take the audio tour of this evil scientist’s lab!
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Funky Winkerbean, 4/29/13 Oh, hey, it looks like it’s a long-absent father party at Funky Winkerbean! First Darrin’s bio-dad took up residence in a local motel, determined to...Show More Summary
Funkyverse Saturday
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Funky Winkerbean, 4/27/13 Is “being Nordic” a thing people say to mean “being pessimistic?” Wouldn’t people in the Funkyverse just say “being a normal human who understandsShow More Summary
Also, I think Eula just drugged the gumbo, call the cops ASAP
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Funky Winkerbean, 4/11/13 So Lisa’s Story has been picked up for direct-to-TV movie fame for big bucks, and I have to admit that I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, I find the unrelenting grimness of the Funkyverse fairly awful, so I suppose I should be glad that some good has actually [...]Show More Summary
Tom Batiuk Talks "Funky Winkerbean"
Award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk tells CBR about his long-running comic strip, the benefits of working so far ahead, killing off characters and his journey from comic book letter hack to cartoonist.
It’s funny!
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Momma, 2/21/13 It’s funny because Momma is down to her last five bucks and her son is a thief. Funky Winkerbean, 2/21/13 Many, many comic strips have terrible dialogue, but the dialogue in Funky Winkerbean and sister strip Crankshaft is terrible in its own unique way — not from lack of craft or attention (Hi, [...]Show More Summary
FunkyWatch: January's Most Depressing 'Funky Winkerbean' And 'Crankshaft' Strips
Thanks to Josh Fruhlinger at the Comics Curmudgeon, I started reading Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper comic strips, Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, what started as a strip full of wacky high-school... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Random Nerd Nostalgia: Morning Funnies Cereal
[Image description: A collection of characters from late 80's comic strips--Luann, Funky Winkerbean, Dennis the Menace, Hagar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey, Family Circus characters, and an annoying baby character whose name I can't be arsed to research,are all excitedly eating cereal. Show More Summary
Depressing Tuesday
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Funky Winkerbean, 1/15/13 Funky Winkerbean Is The Most Depressing Long-Form Work Of Art Ever Created, Chapter 923: two happily married young people with no major current traumas (though...Show More Summary
Why the Norse conquered England
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Funky Winkerbean, 1/9/13 As threatened, Crazy Harry is about to do some kind of emotionally scarring sybaritic dance, probably while naked. He’s already basically making sweet love to that comics anthology, right in plain sight of everybody. Show More Summary
OK, we get it, comics aren’t always funny, you’re proving that real nicely
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Funky Winkerbean, 11/9/12 So, yes, as predicted, an innocent if somewhat ham-handed query about why the word “comic” usually means “funny” but doesn’t in the case of comic books has...Show More Summary
The 2012 Elections In Newspaper Comic Strips [Recap]
Unlike CA Senior Writer Chris Sims, who steadfastly scours the funny pages each month for his Funky Winkerbean/Crankshaft chronicle, Funkywatch (to say nothing of his inspiration, Josh Fruhlinger at the daily Comics Curmudgeon blog), there's a... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Comic Book Easter Eggs: John Byrne Pays Homage to Classic comic Strips
In the latest edition of CSBG's Easter egg spotlight, we take a look at John Byrne featuring cameos of characters from "Doonesbury," "Funky Winkerbean" and "Crankshaft."
Once again, my running joke is outdone
Funky Winkerbean, 9/30/12 So there’s a dismal, pouring rain, and the daughters upon whom Les and Cayla have lavished all their energy over the past 18 years have moved away, and even the things that should be joyful to look forward to are just looming, anxiety-inducing projects that must be tackled with grim determination and [...]
'Funky Winkerbean' Takes On J. Michael Straczynski's 'Grounded' Story Arc. You Are Not Hallucinating This Headline.
As regular ComicsAlliance readers know all too well by now, I have an all-consuming obsession with Tom Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean, a newspaper comic strip that is usually devoted to chronicling the various miseries of its characters. In last... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Also: Mopey Pete created Babylon 5? Who knew!
Funky Winkerbean, 9/12/12 In accordance with Funky Winkerbean’s long tradition of making unbearably big deals out of low-level life problems, Mopey Pete the comics artist is behind deadline on the Superman book he’s working on, which is being portrayed metaphorically by him being bedeviled by a sinister supervillain called “The Lord of Late.” This was [...]
FunkyWatch: August's Most Depressing 'Funky Winkerbean' And 'Crankshaft' Strips
Thanks to Josh Fruhlinger at the Comics Curmudgeon, I started reading Tom Batiuk's long-running newspaper comic strips, Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, what started as a strip full of wacky high-school... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
COTW cache
Funky Winkerbean — “Well, how do we know Power Girl #18 won’t stain herself? Maybe that’s one of Power Girl’s powers, self-staining. I mean, powers can’t be all super-speed and flight and stretchiness and spider-web shooting and invisibility and green rings and utility belts and cool stuff like that. Maybe some are, you know, just [...]
Funky Winkerbean Fights the Evil that is Pac-Man
Just so you remember, people have been fighting the “harmful effects” of video games for a very long time. Thanks to Steve for sharing this with me.
Short and baffling
Crankshaft, 8/22/12 Press on, dreamer — this is Crankshaft. Funky Winkerbean, 8/22/12 “Pleeeeeeeease? And thank your lucky stars you only lost an arm, young lady!” Family Circus, 8/22/12 “Or we could stick seeds in all that dirt on me and grow crops right here.” B.C., 8/22/12 They’re a family business. Have a nice day. – [...]
