by Tom Batiuk | May 3, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
Along with the Crankshaft collections that Andrews McMeel was bringing out, they also published the first collection of some of my mature, or maybe let’s call it, adult work. I had been writing a series about Crankshaft’s next door neighbor, Lillian...
by tombatiuk | Apr 21, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
When King Features was shopping Lisa’s Story to the New York book companies, two of the publishers they approached were Penguin Putnam and NBM. NBM was and is a publisher of graphic arts collections, and was a pretty small operation at the time. So when Penguin...
by tombatiuk | Mar 21, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
This 1996 collection of band strips from NLP Marketing (now Barnhouse Publishing) marks the first appearance of Chuck Ayers work in these books since he came on board to pencil Funky. I was still doing a ton of speaking engagements at various band banquets both local...
by Tom Batiuk | Jan 26, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
It seems as if the quiet winters that I love just aren’t the slow periods that they used to be anymore. I’m working like crazy here at the Cartoon Castle on the next volume of The Complete Funky Winkerbean and, as a result, the posting of new Komix...
by Tom Batiuk | Nov 15, 2022 | Komix Thoughts
If you’ve signed up to get my newsletter, then you’re one of the early birds who already knows that Volume 12 of The Complete Funky Winkerbean has arrived. It’s just in time for that Funky fan on your Christmas shopping list. This latest collection...
