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Laws the funny pages10/27/2022 ![]() ![]() The captivating story chronicled the struggle faced by the strip’s main character and those around her when she was diagnosed with breast cancer – and in the end, beat it! The comic strip series garnered tremendous publicity as well as praise from breast cancer organizations, health-care providers, educators, the cartooning community and, overwhelmingly, from readers all across the country. In January 1999, Batiuk introduced the initial “Lisa’s Story” – a six-month storyline on breast cancer, a subject never before broached in the comics. The Funky Winkerbean comic strip chronicles the lives of a group of friends from Westview, U.S.A., who went to high school together and are now experiencing the trials and tribulations of adult life – both personally and professionally. Now, beginning May 9, Batiuk will launch “Lisa’s Story Revisited” with a six-month Funky Winkerbean storyline focused on the return of Lisa’s breast cancer – a story that will no doubt be one of the most controversial and highly emotional events in comic strip history. However, it was creator Tom Batiuk’s “Lisa’s Story” breast cancer arc in 1999 that truly catapulted the strip into the national limelight and received praise from national cancer organizations and breast cancer survivors. Through the years, the daily comic strip, which is distributed by King Features Syndicate to newspapers around the world, has presented groundbreaking storylines focusing on such tough and controversial subjects as teen pregnancy, suicide, capital punishment, alcoholism, dating abuse and dyslexia that have earned high marks from fans, educators and community leaders. New York- One of America’s favorite comic strips, Funky Winkerbean, will once again tackle the sensitive issue of breast cancer with a new series starting this May and running through October 2007. “Lisa’s Story Revisited” Storyline Starting on May 9 They’re meant to be, sometimes - or they wouldn’t be in the funny pages.King Features’ Funky Winkerbean Comic Strip Launches “Gil” ( online or in the paper) offers kids warily watching their parents work their way through a divorce some perspective and reassurance. Things may be mixed up, but that must be the way There is something about the format, the brevity and (of course) the humor that endures, even as formats change. On the breakfast table, and what else in that mass of black-and-white ink could you possibly want to read?īut even if comic strips are not the dominant force of culture they were in their earlier days, or even back when “Calvin and Hobbes” was on the front of every Sunday section and the “Far Side”Ĭalendar on every desk, they’re still out there, readable online, popular on Tumblr, created anew by teens from the Midwest and ’70s divorce survivors, like Norm Feuti, the creator of “Gil.” As I remember it, one opened the comics because the paper was Have to admit, reluctantly, that “Gil” in the daily comic strip form will have a hard time finding its way into the hands of many kids. My own children still sprawl out on the floor on Sunday with the (shrinking) comics section, reading “Mutts” aloud to each other and puzzling (I hope) over “Doonesbury,” as I once did. ![]() For others, the question of why it’s funny offers a child a glimpse into the grown-up mind. Is more “Baby Blues” than “Boondocks,” and while all comic strips are ultimately written for adults, it still serves the classic comic strip purpose of reflecting real life back throughĪ much funnier lens. Today, “Candorville” offers the life of a single father in a few papers - but it’s a more adult-oriented, political strip. Were rarely addressed amid a surreal landscape of penguins and wheelchair-driven Star Trek-style adventure. Michael Binkley of “Bloom County” lived with his single father, but the realities of divorce When the cartoonist Lynn Johnston, who based “For Better or for Worse” on her life with her two children and her dentist husband, divorced, it made news, and readers grieved - but the characters in her comic strip carried on. With his mother, children whose parents are divorced get something similar - a funny, familiar, ordinary life against a backdrop of visitation and child support.ĭivorce has not been a staple of the comics. With the addition of “Gil,” a new comic strip starring a young boy living I saw in the Sunday comics, where big families, sibling battles and giant sandwiches seemed to be the norm.Įventually “Sally Forth” came along and offered me something that reflected my world to cut out and put on the fridge. I’ve always loved the “funny pages.” We called them the “funnies,” as in, “Pass the funnies.” But my life, as the only child of two working parents, wasn’t one ![]()
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