by Elyse Ohryn | Jul 15, 2022 | Media and Events
Published April 07, 2008 The Daily Cartoonist By Alan Gardner Tom Batiuk creator of the comic feature Funky Winkerbean is one of the three finalists for this year’s Pulitzer Prize. This is the fourth time a comic strip has been considered for American...
by Elyse Ohryn | Jul 15, 2022 | Media and Events
Published March 2008 Comic Evolution By Dave...
by Elyse Ohryn | Apr 24, 2020 | Media and Events
Published April 24, 2020 Kent State University Magazine by Macy Kittelberger About five years ago, cartoonist Tom Batiuk, BFA ’69—perhaps best known for his long-running newspaper comic strip, Funky Winkerbean—was contacted by a local high school student who wanted to...
by Elyse Ohryn | Feb 25, 2020 | Media, Media and Events
Published February 25, 2020 The Delaware Gazette by Gary Presley Dan Davis is the artist on “Crankshaft.” He is also the artist for “Garfield,” and in the past has drawn “Batman,” “Blondie” and “Alley Oop.” If you like your newspaper’s comic strips locally sourced...
by Elyse Ohryn | Sep 10, 2019 | Media and Events
By Jacob Feldman Since 1972 cartooist Tom Batiuk has told the story of Funky Winkerbean and his Westview High classmates. In the fall Batiuk would often return to the story arc of Jerome (Bull) Bushka, the school’s star fullback and later, coach. But lately,...
