by Tom Batiuk | Mar 27, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
I learned pretty early on to just trust my own instincts when it came to writing. As I mentioned back in Volume 1 of this series, I had purchased a book on writing gag cartoons, which I immediately abandoned and put aside as ineffectual for me. Part of that I’m sure...
by Tom Batiuk | Mar 20, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Now, in previous introductions to these collections, I’ve discussed the writing in terms of how it changed from gags to sitcoms to a more cinematic storytelling approach, and how that opened the work up to approaching more complex subjects and edge work. However, I’ve...
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...
