The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 11: 2002–2004

Long-running character Funky Winkerbean reminds us that we all have to grow up

Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. Relationships move to the front of the stage in this eleventh volume of The Complete Funky Winkerbean as the lighthearted dalliances of the past segue to the more mature partnerships of the adult world.  Marriages are tested as Funky and Cindy’s relationship begins to break apart, and Becky and Wally are separated by the war in Afghanistan. At the same time, Lisa and Les begin a family and go house hunting, while Crazy Harry meets an unlikely soulmate from his high school video gaming days.

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Additional information

Publisher

The Kent State University Press, Black Squirrel Books

Publish Date

January 25, 2022

Language

English

Page Count

520 pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

7.5 x 1.5 x 10 inches

ISBN-10

1606354388

ISBN-13

978-1606354384

Long-running character Funky Winkerbean reminds us that we all have to grow up

Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. Relationships move to the front of the stage in this eleventh volume of The Complete Funky Winkerbean as the lighthearted dalliances of the past segue to the more mature partnerships of the adult world.  Marriages are tested as Funky and Cindy’s relationship begins to break apart, and Becky and Wally are separated by the war in Afghanistan. At the same time, Lisa and Les begin a family and go house hunting, while Crazy Harry meets an unlikely soulmate from his high school video gaming days.

In Tom Batiuk’s introduction to this volume, the curtain is pulled back on the art of Funky to show what was happening behind the scenes artistically as the work over these years was being created.