Lisa’s Story
In 1999, Lisa Moore, one of Funky’s friends and a main character, discovered she had breast cancer. Batiuk, unsure about dealing with such a serious subject on the funny pages, decided to go ahead with...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 1, 1972–1974
Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. This volume, which presents the strip’s first three years,...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 2, 1975–1977
Since its debut on March 27, 1972, Funky Winkerbean has chronicled the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. This second volume, which presents strips from 1975, 1976,...
View ArticleStrike Four!
The Toledo Mud Hens—a farm team for the Detroit Tigers—once had a budding pitcher named Ed Crankshaft. At least that’s how partners in cartooning, writer Tom Batiuk and artist Chuck Ayers, scripted the...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 3, 1978-1980
In this third volume, award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk continues to chronicle the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. Funky Winkerbean fans are introduced to a...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 4
By the 1980s Batiuk’s talent for character- and story-driven work comes into its own. Harry L. Dinkle, the World’s Greatest Band Director and Funky’s first breakout character, is still marching along...
View ArticleRoses in December
Roses in December is a touching collection of two Crankshaft storylines of characters who find themselves dealing with the incurable condition of Alzheimer’s disease. First, Ed Crankshaft’s best friend...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 5, 1984–1986
By this point in its evolution, Funky Winkerbean is resonating with its readers and its popularity is growing. Crankshaft, the irascible bus driver, and Betty, Westview High School’s secretary, are...
View ArticlePrelude
Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together. Introduced to readers of Funky Winkerbean in late 1984 as she experiences SAT test anxiety, Lisa becomes Les Moore’s...
View ArticleThe Last Leaf
To be published simultaneously with Prelude, The Last Leaf is the sequel after Lisa’s death from breast cancer in Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe. The Last Leaf recounts how Les and family cope with...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 6, 1987–1989
In this sixth volume, we see the changes in tone that now characterize Funky Winkerbean. The story arcs increasingly intertwine to mark the shift from the simple sitcom mode to a more complex narrative...
View ArticleLisa’s Legacy Trilogy
Slip-cased Lisa's Legacy Trilogy containing all three cloth editions. Prelude is a collection of the early comic strips that bring Lisa and Les together and takes fans from the early days of their deep...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 7, 1990–1992
In this seventh volume, we see the changes in tone that now characterize Funky Winkerbean. Funky becomes more of a reality-based comic strip that depicts contemporary issues in a thought-provoking and...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean Volume 8, 1993–1995
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...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean
Funky Winkerbean, a newspaper staple since 1972, is one of the few comic strips that allows its characters to grow and age. As time passes and characters evolve, new and loyal readers alike are...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean
Relationships move to the front of the stage in this eleventh volume of The Complete Funky Winkerbean as the lighthearted dalliances of the past segue to the more mature partnerships of the adult...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 12, 2005–2007
Funky Winkerbean, a newspaper staple since 1972, is one of the few comic strips that allows its characters to grow and age. As time passes and characters evolve, new and loyal readers alike are...
View ArticleThe Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 13, 2008–2010
This latest installment of The Complete Funky Winkerbean presents the comic strips from 2008, 2009, and 2010 and ushers the original Funky characters into middle age. In true Funky fashion, the...
View Article
