In writing the story, I took all of Joe's advice except for that 'home run' sequence; I needed a Hollywood-type moment there. It's not out of the realm of possibility, ... but don't count on it.
"Tom Batiuk" (pronounced "Battick") (born 1947 in Akron, Ohio) is an American comic strip creator. His best-known comic strip is Funky Winkerbean.
Batiuk attended Kent State University, from which he graduated in 1969 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in painting. He went on to teach art in junior high school. He put his experiences to use in his gag-a-day Funky Winkerbean, which first appeared in print on March 27, 1972. With the success of the strip, he abandoned his teaching career, occasionally returning to the classroom to refresh his sources. He authored two spinoff strips, John Darling (comic strip)/John Darling, which ran from 1979 through 1990, and Crankshaft (comic strip)/Crankshaft, which began syndication in 1987. These strips sometimes experience fictional crossover/crossovers.
Over the years, Batiuk's strips have taken on an increasing narrative continuity. Starting in 1986, Funky, and to a lesser extent Crankshaft, sometimes abandoned humor to explore serious, even tragic subject matter.
More Tom Batiuk on Wikipedia.It's just as important if [comic book artists] start losing their rights, or start getting censored -- I just think they're an underappreciated medium.
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