by Tom Batiuk | Jan 14, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
So, returning to that lunch with the King Features executives, Funky Winkerbean had been around for forty-plus years, and we were gathered to celebrate the signing of a new contract extension as well as the successful promotion and protection of a recent “difficult”...
by Tom Batiuk | Dec 16, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
The Process I made the quip at a lunch with King Features executives in the Palm restaurant in New York City. I meant it as a joke, never realizing until sometime later how honest an answer it actually was, and that, as it turned out, I apparently wasn’t joking at...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 14, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
It was at the Akron Comicon that fall that I approached Joe Staton about doing the first cover, and I couldn’t have made a better call. Joe was best known for his decades of work on DC Comics, where he worked on characters like Batman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, and...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 10, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
The second “big story” happened in the fall of 2012, and it took my Holy Grail thread to a new place. I had been using the old comic book covers in my Sunday strips to give a nod to the comic book artists I had admired as a youth, and that particular string was pretty...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 4, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
When you do something like climb a mountain, you take a ton of pictures. So researching the story wasn’t ever going to be a problem, but knowing in advance that I would now be writing about the experience certainly influenced the pictures I took. However, the...
