by Tom Batiuk | Apr 17, 2024 | Komix Thoughts
While I was pretty much still crawling through the wreckage at the bottom, the story about Lisa and her battle with cancer that ran in the newspapers was recognized as a Pulitzer finalist. Just as everything was crashing (please believe me when I say that pun was not...
by Tom Batiuk | Mar 27, 2024 | Komix Thoughts
Before Cathy could begin driving me to physical therapy appointments, a therapist came to the house twice a week to work with me. One of the assignments that she gave me to work on was to unscrew a floor-broom handle from its brush and, holding it with both hands,...
by Tom Batiuk | Mar 13, 2024 | Komix Thoughts
While on the subject of art, holding up my end of the art on the strip was something that was a much bigger concern than the writing. As I mentioned earlier, following my accident, there was no way I could make it up to my studio to ink and letter the penciled strips....
by Tom Batiuk | Feb 21, 2024 | Komix Thoughts
After my family had moved away from Akron, we would make periodic forced marches back to the city on Sundays to “go visiting.” For a twelve-year-old kid, it was unsparing boredom, but when we got to my Grandmother’s house on Brown Street, I would be set free to walk...
by Tom Batiuk | Feb 13, 2024 | Komix Thoughts
Ever since dealing with a couple of severe bouts of illness a few years earlier, along with getting both Funky and Crankshaft a year ahead, I had toyed with the idea of seeing what it would be like to have another writer briefly lend a hand with the writing of the...
