Comments on: Funky Winkerbean Gives a Brief History of Comics

By: Steven R

Steven R — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 23:42:14 +0000

Showing how far behind I am – but let me say who some of the characters are.
The guy with the GRAY HAIR is Crazy Harry (air guitar champ turned mailman). He is talking to John Howard, owner of the comic book shop (and married to Becky).
Not sure who the young guys are.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:43:37 +0000

No, it’s a different character in the strips posted above. However, everyone’s aged from teens to middle age (via a few time-jumps in the strip) by this point (Funky’s now balding and heavy-set). Les is now a teacher at the school the gang used to go to (and there’s a new cast of teenage characters), and seems to have taken over as the strip’s lead character…

I’m just glad to see they went a week without something extremely depressing (as the strip’s mostly become of late—everyone having really traumatic problems).

By: Johanna

Johanna — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:37:57 +0000

I don’t think that’s Funky, but another character? I don’t know, the only cast members I recognize are Les and the band leader guy.

By: Tammy Brown

Tammy Brown — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 21:18:42 +0000

Am I so out of it that I didn’t know “Funky Winkerbean” was still around? And is that him with GRAY HAIR???