Who created the comic strip, funky winkerbean ?”
Funky Winkerbean is a comic strip created by high school teacher Tom Batiuk, which debuted on March 26, 1972. The strip is centered on Westview High School and initially focused on several of its students: the title character, Funky Winkerbean, Crazy Harry Klinghorn, Barry Balderman, Bull Bushka, Cindy Summers, Junebug, Leslie P. “Les” Moore, majorette Holly Budd (daughter of Melinda Budd, original majorette for Westview High) and Lisa Crawford.
According to the King Features Syndicate website, Funky Winkerbean debuted in 1972 (the year after I was born). The strip centers around Westview High School in a small Ohio town, and chronicles the lives of its students and faculty, among others. For about the first twenty years, time was frozen as readers enjoyed the adventures of high school students Funky Winkerbean and company, the Westview High marching band (led by Harry Dinkle, the world’s greatest band leader), and the Westview Scapegoats, probably the losingest football team in comic strip history. Readers were also treated to views of school life as seen through inanimate objects, such as the school desks and the school rock.
Funky Winkerbean is a comic strip created by high school teacher Tom Batiuk (pronounced “BAT-ick”), which debuted on March 26, 1972. The strip is centered on Westview High School and initially focused on several of its students: the title character, Funky Winkerbean, Crazy Harry Klinghorn, Barry Balderman, Bull Bushka, Cindy Summers, Junebug, Leslie P. “Les” Moore, majorette Holly Budd (daughter of Melinda Budd, original majorette for Westview High) and Lisa Crawford. While the strip’s namesake was a visible character, the one whose misadventures began to make him the focus was all-around hapless nice guy Les Moore. Batiuk reserved some of his best visual gags for Les, such as his serving as Hall Monitor while sitting at a desk with a vintage machine gun bolted to it (his symbol of authority). Les, not an impressive physical specimen, had a few battles with rope-climbing in Gym class; once, he made it to the top, was afraid to try to climb down, and had to hang on while an entire Westv
Funky Winkerbean is a comic strip created by high school teacher Tom Batiuk (pronounced “BAT-ick”), which debuted on March 26, 1972. The strip is centered on Westview High School and initially focused on several of its students: the title character, Funky Winkerbean, Crazy Harry Klinghorn, Barry Balderman, Bull Bushka, Cindy Summers, Junebug, Leslie P. “Les” Moore, majorette Holly Budd (daughter of Melinda Budd, original majorette for Westview High) and Lisa Crawford.
