funky winkerbean is gone

[dembotoz]

comic strip

more of a soap opera strip than a daily ha ha

and yes it was sometimes hard to find. My daily newspaper dropped it years ago and it took a bit to find it online.

and yes some of the story lines were stupid and syrupy, but i needed my funky fix every day.

i will miss it

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I couldn't maintain interest

In Funky’s early heyday, I read actual newspapers, including all the comic strips. I found lots of amusing observations, but when it veered into stories that required some effort to follow, I started skipping past like it was Mary Worth or Family Circus.

With online news, I no longer had access to daily funnies in the daily paper. With a world of information at hand, I could pick and choose content, and comics in general weren’t as high priority. Nowadays, most of those I see are posted on DU, and that includes editorial cartoons. Thanks to DUers who bring the good stuff back here to share.

[MiHale]

2. Try Go Comics...

https://www.gocomics.com/

That’s my favorite, you get to pick what strips you want to follow. Great 10- 15 minute break from the daily shovelful.

Then there’s

https://www.arcamax.com/comics

I find it harder to navigate

[EYESORE 9001]

3. Thanks!

Anything to maximize my time online is helpful.

[dembotoz]

4. gone retired

https://www.kent.edu/today/news/funky-winkerbean-comes-end-comic-strips-creator-reflects-50-years

[AngryOldDem]

11. So he did retire.

[ironflange]

8. There's also Comics Kingdom

https://comicskingdom.com/

They don't let you see every day though.

[SouthernDem4ever]

5. Been a long time since I saw that strip

but I seem to remember this funny scenario about the band selling turkeys. lol

[AZSkiffyGeek]

6. I remember the band stories when I was in high achool

Then lost track of the strip until the late 90s. It had changed from what I remembered, but the cancer storyline and some of the Iraq Wat stuff he did was brilliant.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Same here

I have not seen that strip in a very long time

[LudwigPastorius]

9. I checked out on it after the story abruptly shifted 10 years into the future.

Can't remember when this happened, but it was a couple of weeks after the Lisa character died.

[AngryOldDem]

10. It's been a piece of shit for years.

Batuik’s ego and obsession with comic books are what killed it, along with his ridiculous retconning to fill in obvious holes in his plots.

He was supposedly going to end the strip on it’s 50th anniversary last year.

I used to follow a blog, Son of Stuck Funky. Its snark was the only way I could read that strip.

(On a side note, the summer before my senior year in high school I went to a journalism workshop at Ohio University. On the last day he was the featured speaker and he would draw Funky characters and hand them out. Didn’t get one. This was in 1977, when the strip was still pretty much true to its premise.)