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Crankshaft is a comic strip about a character by the same name — an older, curmudgeonly school bus driver —which debuted on June 8, 1987. Written by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Dan Davis, [2] Crankshaft is a spin-off from Batiuk's comic strip Funky Winkerbean. [3] Prior to April 2, 2017, the strip was drawn by Chuck Ayers. [4]
A Crankshaft strip from May 23, 2007, sarcastically addresses the more recent controversies from Batiuk's perspective, with a character remarking of newspaper comic strips that "everyone knows they're supposed to be funny". [28] In the Funky Winkerbean strip published on September 30, 2007, Les essentially echoes the Crankshaft comment. [29]
Starting in 1986, Funky, and to a lesser extent Crankshaft, sometimes abandoned humor to explore serious, even tragic subject matter. [3] Funky Winkerbean has been time-jumped twice, first aging the characters to their late 20s early 30s and a second jump pushed them into late middle age. Crankshaft was never jumped, but he is shown in ...
To better serve readers, many USA TODAY Network newspapers across the country will have a redesigned comics section starting in October, and that includes The Herald-Mail. Joseph Deinlein
ArcaMax Publishing is a privately-owned American web/email syndication news publisher that provides editorial content, columns & features, comic strips, and editorial cartoons via email. [2] ArcaMax also produces co-branded newsletters with corporate clients. The company is based in Newport News, Virginia. Its revenue comes from advertising. [2]
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John Darling, a talk-show host, was originally a supporting character in Batiuk's strip Funky Winkerbean before being spun off into his own strip. Much of the strip's humor came from Darling's outsized ego, quirks, and frequent displays of ignorance; in one strip, [which?] he interviews musician Prince, asking him "Exactly which country are you a prince of?"