>looks like he's approaching a turn >he's coming around the turn >hits the gas >GOTCHA WOW BET YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING THAT
I hate how this is what subverting expectations has become. All modern "artists" are fricking hacks
To be fair, it was a fitting conclusion to a larger storyline, where it was revealed Bull, quarterback of the Scapegoats back when Funky and company went to high school, found out that he had CTE and was going to suffer for the rest of his life, and then, while out on a drive to clear his head, killed himself, leaving his wife and the rest of the cast distraught
They take like a year at most to do an episode of the Simpsons, right? Since the episode aired November 2000, they had to have done it around 1999. 1999 was when he first did the Lisa cancer story, and 1998 he had the story where Funky's cousin Wally goes drunk driving and causes his girlfriend Becky to lose an arm.
Funky Winkerbean is so fricking melodramatic that it loops back around to hilarious.
He did an entire week long arc where a drama teacher had to defend her choice of "Wit" for the Spring play and had a dumb strawman parent want to do Spamalot instead.
The thing is, Wit is a TERRIBLE choice for a big seasonal high school production.
1. It's a one woman show. The reason so many schools do Musicals for their big productions is they often have a lot of roles and crew positions, so that any student who wants to participate can. Doing Wit would basically mean telling 7/8ths of the other drama kids to frick off.
2. Wit is a NOTORIOUSLY hard play to perform because the main character is a woman dying of cancer who is bedbound the entire play. So not only would the audience only be watching ONE STUDENT, who would have to memorize dozens of pages of lines, they'd ALSO feel pressured to deliver a performance that several professional actors struggle with since they have to be compelling and strong while remaining bedbound and weak. The OTHER big reason High Schools so often do musicals is because those are often less grounded in their tone, freeing students to have fun with it.
The entire arc felt like he just googled "cancer play", because cancer is DRAMATIC, and then had his brave and noble cartoonist- er, drama teacher, defend her cancer choice to the dumb and shallow readers- I mean, parents.
How much would I be paid if I gathered the comic year by year and storytimed it?
I'd probably have to group the strips by week for each image post, at least.
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I don't know about that anon you responded to, but I did used to do that, years ago. It's a lot of work to go through (plus the comics are in gif form so you have to make sure it gets coverted to the right colors otherwise it looks off)
Comic cannon is weird.
Remember the Blondy 50th anniversary special. That was like Smash Brothers, just about EVERY comic was crossing over and they were all attending the party.
Well, except for the cast of Pearls, they weren't invited and spend the time spying on everyone else. They watched Dilbert take part in strip twister.
Are you talking about the Simpsons episode or the comic strip? The idea in the episode was Bart was kind of right because Funky Winkerbean isn't exactly the kind of character you'd make a balloon of because there were probably people who watched the show didn't know who the character was, and those that did follow the comic, got to see things like
That episode of the Simpsons aired the year Funky was having alcoholism problems.
It's strange because Willis' style seems to be noticeably influenced by Winkerbean's style. Plus, he writes the same sort of "ughhh life is so badddddd" shit, except with wokeisms thrown into the mix.
The Age of Irony ruined storytelling for a generation. People are so self-conscious these days; the internet's made them more afraid of being made out to be a loser.
I think that's honestly why. He's basically writing a Funky ripoff and it makes him mad that his life's work will never be anywhere near as notable and that his entire career will basically be remembered for "I'm Batman".
Iketani nooo! Who's going to race against the Red Suns now?
>looks like he's approaching a turn
>he's coming around the turn
>hits the gas
>GOTCHA WOW BET YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING THAT
I hate how this is what subverting expectations has become. All modern "artists" are fricking hacks
To be fair, it was a fitting conclusion to a larger storyline, where it was revealed Bull, quarterback of the Scapegoats back when Funky and company went to high school, found out that he had CTE and was going to suffer for the rest of his life, and then, while out on a drive to clear his head, killed himself, leaving his wife and the rest of the cast distraught
>. All modern "artists" are fricking hacks
The guy's been doing this comic since before you were born, probably.
>There's Chucky Feederseed! Over here Chucky!
Was this an actual character? I cant even tell anymore
Surprisingly yes.
Yes its a very funny comic strip
Jesus fricking hell this is like if 90s simpsons made a passing reference to the Clarissa comics
That Simpsons episode was made right around the time it was shifting from a still mostly-gag-a-day strip over to more serious stories.
That was when they did the timeskip into middle-age.
They take like a year at most to do an episode of the Simpsons, right? Since the episode aired November 2000, they had to have done it around 1999. 1999 was when he first did the Lisa cancer story, and 1998 he had the story where Funky's cousin Wally goes drunk driving and causes his girlfriend Becky to lose an arm.
That episode of the Simpsons aired the year Funky was having alcoholism problems.
hahaha classic funky
What the frick Margeret
>Over here, Drunky!
pfft
>Drunky Winkerbean
Funky Winkerbean is so fricking melodramatic that it loops back around to hilarious.
He did an entire week long arc where a drama teacher had to defend her choice of "Wit" for the Spring play and had a dumb strawman parent want to do Spamalot instead.
The thing is, Wit is a TERRIBLE choice for a big seasonal high school production.
1. It's a one woman show. The reason so many schools do Musicals for their big productions is they often have a lot of roles and crew positions, so that any student who wants to participate can. Doing Wit would basically mean telling 7/8ths of the other drama kids to frick off.
2. Wit is a NOTORIOUSLY hard play to perform because the main character is a woman dying of cancer who is bedbound the entire play. So not only would the audience only be watching ONE STUDENT, who would have to memorize dozens of pages of lines, they'd ALSO feel pressured to deliver a performance that several professional actors struggle with since they have to be compelling and strong while remaining bedbound and weak. The OTHER big reason High Schools so often do musicals is because those are often less grounded in their tone, freeing students to have fun with it.
The entire arc felt like he just googled "cancer play", because cancer is DRAMATIC, and then had his brave and noble cartoonist- er, drama teacher, defend her cancer choice to the dumb and shallow readers- I mean, parents.
I honestly wish I had a good method to do a funky storytime on Cinemaphile. I feel like that ride would put Archie Sonic to shame.
How much would I be paid if I gathered the comic year by year and storytimed it?
I'd probably have to group the strips by week for each image post, at least.
I don't know about that anon you responded to, but I did used to do that, years ago. It's a lot of work to go through (plus the comics are in gif form so you have to make sure it gets coverted to the right colors otherwise it looks off)
Someone did it years ago, actually. It was a good time.
May I just take a moment to compliment you on your excellent choice of artist. Bellissimo!
who's the artist?
is that the full image? or is it a crop.
Help
Oh boy, you're in for a ride.
The joke is that when this episode was aired Funky Winkerbean shifted from a generic newspaper comic to being as edgy as the Punisher.
Imagine if they did a simpsons reboot and made garth ennis the showrunner with unlimited creative control
I wanna get funky with lisa's winker bean
where i can read funky?
seems like a insteresting strip,with all the resets and time jumps
There's books that go up to 2004. Anything after that is not worth your time.
Comics Kingdom's archives go from I think late 1998 to now.
The book series reprinted everything from the 70s to currently 2004.
I’m more of a chrankshaft chad myself
Those old Funky story times actually helped me with depression and I’m so embarrassed by it
Daw, its okay. What matters is you connected with something and came out a happy person.
We don't know if Anon actually became happier, he hasn't told us.
That actually is funny, but my god, what a dark setup.
The best/worst part is that it's Funky, so I'd 100% believe that they would do it.
I didn't know the guy, but it has good art imho
I love it how it's supposed to be a really dramatic and realistic comic yet somehow it had a canon crossover with fricking Dick Tracy.
Michael T. Gilbert's Mr. Monster also showed up at one point.
Comic cannon is weird.
Remember the Blondy 50th anniversary special. That was like Smash Brothers, just about EVERY comic was crossing over and they were all attending the party.
Well, except for the cast of Pearls, they weren't invited and spend the time spying on everyone else. They watched Dilbert take part in strip twister.
Why is Funky 45 but looks like he's 60, here?
He's been gradually aging up during since 2007 after the second time-skip
I think he's in his late 50s at the time of the Dick Tracy crossover
whoa,... cool man. Is it all online now? I never saw this comic in the papers at all.
Yeah it's on Comics Kingdom
There used to be a download link for everything years ago but then the site or the file went down
I don’t get it
I do not get it. Is It meant to be satire?
Are you talking about the Simpsons episode or the comic strip? The idea in the episode was Bart was kind of right because Funky Winkerbean isn't exactly the kind of character you'd make a balloon of because there were probably people who watched the show didn't know who the character was, and those that did follow the comic, got to see things like
Not exactly float-friendly
You mean Cancer WinkerCancer?
>*puffs on cigarette like a Frenchman*
Life, eh?
Welcome to the only game in town.
I like Funky Winkerbean because it causes eternal seething in Dave Willis for no real reason.
It's strange because Willis' style seems to be noticeably influenced by Winkerbean's style. Plus, he writes the same sort of "ughhh life is so badddddd" shit, except with wokeisms thrown into the mix.
it's also why he has a compulsive need to defuse any dramatic impact and tension with crummy jokes
the irony poisoned millennial fears sincerity
The Age of Irony ruined storytelling for a generation. People are so self-conscious these days; the internet's made them more afraid of being made out to be a loser.
I think that's honestly why. He's basically writing a Funky ripoff and it makes him mad that his life's work will never be anywhere near as notable and that his entire career will basically be remembered for "I'm Batman".
Well, that and being a consistent contributor to multiple Transformers wikis.
Did boomers really consume this shit daily?