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Funky Winkerbean was an American comic strip by Tom Batiuk. Distributed by North America Syndicate, a division of King Features Syndicate, ...
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 ...
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]
Akron-born Tom Batiuk took readers on a life's journey with the cast of characters from "Funky Winkerbean" that began on March 27, 1972.
Byrne did this as a favor for Winkerbean's creator, Tom Batiuk, who was recovering from foot surgery. [101] He would later become the final person to draw Funky Winkerbean, taking over illustration duties from artist Chuck Ayers for the strip's concluding week, ending on December 31, 2022. [102]
John Darling's murder (which had been depicted as being by an unknown assailant) stayed unsolved until a 1997 Funky Winkerbean storyline celebrating that strip's 25th anniversary. Over the course of the storyline, Winkerbean character Les Moore wrote a book on Darling's murder ("Fallen Star") and solved the case.
Tom Batiuk - (Funky Winkerbean, John Darling) Alison Bechdel - (Dykes to Watch Out For) C. C. Beck - (Captain Marvel) Gabrielle Bell; Howard Bender; Brian Michael Bendis; Christian Beranek; Dave Berg - (The Lighter Side of...) Karen Berger - Walter Berndt - Jack Berrill - D. Bruce Berry; Jim Berry - (Berry's World) Nick Bertozzi
In 1975, syndication operations absorbed Publishers-Hall, and were renamed the Field Newspaper Syndicate, [9] taking on such strips as Dennis the Menace, Funky Winkerbean, Mark Trail, and Momma. The operation was renamed News America Syndicate (NAS) in 1984, after the company was purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. [10]