February 2019
512 pp., 10 x 7 1/2
Cloth $45.00
ISBN 978-1-60635-361-5
The Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 8, 1993–1995
Art, Black Squirrel Books, Comics, Humor, Recent ReleasesTom Batiuk
Foreword by Dennis Diken
DescriptionFollow award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk as he chronicles Funky’s evolution from gags to situational humor to behavioral humor
In this eighth volume, Funky Winkerbean continues to move forward in real time, tackling issues of relevance and substance with characters whose lives are increasingly fateful and destined. Funky has placed Batiuk at the forefront of a new genre in comic art history as the strip pursues stories ahead of their time: guns in schools and teen suicide. The humor in Funky continues to grow as it evolves from sitcom gags to a deeper and more engaging behavioral style of humor.
AuthorTom Batiuk is a graduate of Kent State University. His Funky Winkerbean and Crankshaft comic strips are carried in hundreds of newspapers throughout the United States. He was recognized as one of three finalists in the editorial cartooning category of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize awards competition for the singular series of daily comic strips that chronicled the death of longtime character Lisa Moore, which were collected in the book Lisa’s Story. His Complete Funky Winkerbean series and Roses in December were finalists for the 2016 Eisner Awards.
