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Jason Ditzel
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Article posted 11/18/2022
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John Byrne
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I know how it ends. ;-)
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Vinny Valenti
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Crazy that it's just shy of 20 years since your ghosting stint that had long-term effects on the strip's art style.
Still kicking myself over the page I bought at MOC '04 that I lost that same weekend :(
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 18 November 2022 at 10:21pm
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John Byrne
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According to Tom there were long time FUNKY fans who were disgruntled over my art, tho I’d given Tom exactly what he wanted. At the time, and after, he was leaning more and more toward turning the strip into a soap opera, leaving behind its gag-a-day origins. So he wanted more “serious” art. At the time, I was surprised by how many readers immediately spotted there was a “ghost” at work—and even more surprised by how many recognized it was me!
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Jonathan A. Dowdell
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I grew up in a house where my mom would cut funny comic strips out of the Philadelphia Inquirer and hang the strips on the fridge. Many Funky Winkerbean strips found their way my childhood kitchen.
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Steven Myers
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I "noticed" the Byrne influences were getting a lot stronger! Then I found out why...
I figured things were coming to an end from the recent storylines.
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Tim O Neill
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I like how they are handling the end of the strip - by determining and
announcing an end to its run, it gives Tom Batiuk a chance to give it some
closure and allow readers to say goodbye.
I have read further articles and am wondering - why didn't Chuck Ayers receive
credit on the strip, even though he is penciling? Did he also ink, or does Batiuk
do that himself?
I'm wondering because Ayers received credit during his years on Crankshaft.
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Paul Greer
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Tom is from Elyria, my hometown, so I've
always had a soft spot for Funky.
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John Byrne
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Elyria sounds like a suburb of Asgard!
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Matt Hawes
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Paul Greer: "...Tom is from Elyria, my hometown, so I've
always had a soft spot for Funky..."
In the "degrees of separation" game, a friend of mine is the cousin of cartoonist Tom Armstrong, who is perhaps best known for his comic strip "Marvin" about a baby protagonist which enjoyed its greatest success during the 1980s. Armstrong is from my city of Evansville, Indiana. Prior to "Marvin", Armstrong was the artist on Tom Batiuk's "John Darling" comic strip. |
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Steven Myers
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The art look very JB in this final sequence!
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John Byrne
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Can’t imagine why………….I see Tom gave me an on screen credit this time! :-)
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