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FILTER RESULTS ►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.
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
'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
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
FunkyWatch: July'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
The 40th Anniversary 'Funky Winkerbean' Panel Was, Of Course, Canceled [SDCC]
I'm not even kidding a little bit when I say that the Comic-Con event I was looking forward to the most was the 40th Anniversary of Funky Winkerbean panel featuring the strip's creator, Tom Batiuk. As the record will show, I am thoroughly... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
FunkyWatch: June'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
FunkyWatch: May'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
Go, Read: Funky Winkerbean Turns 40
Congratulations to Tom Batiuk on the occasion of his Funky Winkerbean turning 40 years old, which is celebrated via the kind of newspaper-ready profile that one might have seen back in 1972. I know that a lot of folks make fun of that...Show More Summary
Comics A.M. - Comic-Con to Resell 5,000 One-Day Passes
Comic-Con to resell 5,000 returned or canceled badges! Tom Batiuk, Jon Goldwater and Paige Braddock on tackling gay relationships in comics! Plus, Brian Michael Bendis continues his chat with Greg Rucka!
Books: For Our Consideration: A look at Funky Winkerbean before the misery began
In 1992, 20 years after Tom Batiuk launched his syndicated daily comic strip Funky Winkerbean, the cartoonist revamped the feature, changing it from the mildly absurd adventures of a group of high-school kids to the generally more sobering stories of those same kids as adults. Show More Summary
FunkyWatch: April'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
Comics A.M. - A Call For Disney to Remember Its Roots
Oswald the Rabbit and creators' rights! John Rogers talks Thrillbent and digital comics! James Robinson talks "Earth 2"! Tom Batiuk on "Funky Winkerbean's" new gay storyline! Plus much more!
Classic Comic Strip Features Gay Teen Story
After dealing with suicide, alcoholism, and teen pregnancy 40-year-old comic strip Funky Winkerbean
will include a story arc about a gay couple at Tom Batiuk's fictional
Westview High School.
Long-Running Comic 'Funky Winkerbean' Plans Gay Prom Storyline
Cartoonist Tom Batiuk, author of the long-running comic Funky Winkerbean, is planning a month-long storyline starting April 30 which focuses on a gay student who wants to go to prom, the Chronicle Telegram reports: “It struck me that whenever I...
Link Ink: DC's Lego Ladies, a New 'Funky Winkerbean' Arc and Dancing Spidey
Gaming: SFX has a first look at the playable Wonder Woman and Catwoman characters from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games' upcoming Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes. [SFX]
Comic Strips: Tom Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean will begin a... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Comics A.M. - "Funky Winkerbean" to Tackle Gay Rights
Tom Batiuk's "Funky Winkerbean" to address gay rights in month-long storyline! Cape Comic Con kicks off today in Missouri! Looking back at Frank Miller's 1994 speech about Jack Kirby and creators' rights! Plus more!
Link Ink: Soundgarden's 'Avengers' Song, 'Game of Thrones' Pizza and Comic Crafts
Music: Soundgarden's song for The Avengers movie soundtrack sounds like this. So... what do you think? [107.7 The End] Interviews: The Plain Dealer interviews Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk, who seems like a pretty funny guy. [The Daily... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
FunkyWatch: March'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
Another climate skeptic
Son of Stuck Funky: Unlike Tom Batiuk, I strive to keep my personal opinions out of my “writing”. But since he insists on preaching to us (through Jim the Science Guy) about climate change (I don’t call it global warming), I’m going to vent a little “greenhouse gas” here myself:...
- Attorney General Eric Holder
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
- Don Jon
- Lois Lerner
- Fifth Amendment
- Internal Revenue Service
- Oklahoma Tornado
- Jennifer Aniston
- Chairman Ben Bernanke
- Jose Canseco
- Bad Teacher
- Call of Duty
- Cash Money Records
- Tesla Motors
- Paris Hilton Signs
- Boy Scouts of America
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev
- Ibragim Todashev
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Man of Steel
