by Elyse Ohryn | Sep 8, 2019 | Media, Media and Events
Published Sept. 8, 2019 The New York Times by George Gene Gustines “Funky Winkerbean,” the rare comic strip that allows its characters to grow and age, starts a 10-week story line on Monday that contains a tragedy. Fans of the long-running strip who would like to be...
by Elyse Ohryn | Oct 15, 2017 | Media, Media and Events
by Elyse Ohryn | Sep 10, 2017 | Media, Media and Events
Published Sept 10, 2017 SeattlePI by Zosha Millman Tom Batiuk is a year ahead of all of us. His comic, “Funky Winkerbean,” has been in production since 1972, and in the decades since he’s found himself with a lot of room between creation of a strip...
by Elyse Ohryn | Aug 17, 2015 | Media, Media and Events
Aug 17, 2015 critical BLAST by RJ Carte Reading any of the COMPLETE FUNKY WINKERBEAN volumes is like opening a time capsule. Tom Batiuk brings the crew into the 1980s with this fourth volume, and the cultural references pervade the pages from cover to cover. The...
by Elyse Ohryn | Jul 30, 2015 | Media, Media and Events
July 30, 2015 critical BLAST by RJ Carter There’s a magic in the comic strip format that allows serious subjects to be broached with gentle humor and delivered in manageable bites. Tom Batiuk has tapped into this magic, both in his long running series, FUNKY...