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Matthew Hansel
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Posted: 03 September 2017 at 6:41am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
JB contributed to today's Funky Winkerbean Sunday page (along with Tom Batiuk and Rick Burchett!!)





(edited for title & link -- Tim)



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Noah Smith
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Very cool! And being inked by Joe Giella is pretty awesome.  I can't recall if he's ever inked JB before. Has he?
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Some kid just had their mind blown.
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It's interesting how JB's short stint on FW (I think it was 6 weeks? And holy CRAP that was 14 years ago!) had a lasting effect on Tom Batiuk's art. His style became much more serious-looking (with a hefty Byrne influence to boot) immediately after that.
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Tom asked me to do those FUNKY strips in part because he wanted to change the direction of his art. He even had me do model sheets for a flock of upcoming new characters.

A long road from when I slipped Funky onto the splash of a Spider-Man comic.

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Really cool. Thanks for the head's up.
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Tim O Neill
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This is so cool, JB!


You all can get Funky on a daily basis by following Tom Batiuk's excellent comic strip at:
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Posted: 06 September 2017 at 8:43am | IP Logged | 8 post reply
I just spent a few minutes googling FUNKY. Wow! Things sure have changed since "my day"! And, yes, I can definitely see my ghost lurking in those panels.
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