Tom Batiuk
Auteur de Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe
A propos de l'auteur
Séries
Œuvres de Tom Batiuk
My Name is Funky... and I'm An Alcoholic: A Story About Alcoholism and Recovery (2007) 8 exemplaires
Lisa's Legacy Trilogy: Slip-cased Lisa's Legacy Trilogy containing all three cloth editions (2017) 3 exemplaires
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 11, 2002–2004 (The Complete Funky Winkerbean, 11) (2022) 2 exemplaires
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 10, 1999–2001 (The Complete Funky Winkerbean, 10) (2021) 2 exemplaires
Funky Winkerbean - Harry L. Dinkle Live At Carnegie Hall 2 exemplaires
Funky Winkerbean - The Grass Always Looks Greener on the Other Side of the Football Field! (2000) 2 exemplaires
The Complete Funky Winkerbean, Volume 13, 2008-2010 (Complete Funky Winkerbean: 2008-2010) 2 exemplaires
...And One Slice With Anchovies! 1 exemplaire
Summer's Story 1 exemplaire
Prelude - Lisa's Story Begins 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1947-03-14
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Elyria, Ohio, USA
- Études
- Kent State University (BFA)
- Professions
- cartoonist
- Prix et distinctions
- Pulitzer Prize finalist (Editorial Cartooning, 2008)
- Courte biographie
- [from cartoonist's website]
After graduating from Kent State University in 1969 with a BFA and a certificate in education, Tom Batiuk taught junior high arts and crafts in Elyria, Ohio. While he was teaching, he began drawing a panel called Rapping Around for the Teen Page of the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram in 1970 which led, in 1972, to the creation of Funky Winkerbean.
In 1979, he launched into syndication John Darling, showcasing the misadventures of a fictional talk-show host, with artist Tom Armstrong; followed in 1987 by his third comic strip, Crankshaft, with artist Chuck Ayers, and now currently with Dan Davis.
He received the Ohio Governor's Award in 1996, and received an Inkpot Award from Comic-Con International in 1999. His book collections The Complete Funky Winkerbean Vol. 4 and Roses in December were both Eisner Nominees at San Diego Comic-Con International in 2016.
In October of 2007, The Kent State University Press published Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe which compiled the entire Lisa's cancer story arc. In 2008, Lisa's Story was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
March of 2022 marked Funky's 50th anniversary.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 38
- Membres
- 272
- Popularité
- #85,118
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 35
Lillian and Lucy McKenzie get the most screen time, and their story begins with Lucy's usual absentmindedness becoming more frequent and extreme. Lucy bonds with Crankshaft's granddaughter, Mindy Murdoch, and spends much of their time together telling about a lost love from the 1930s. Those flashbacks become more frequent as Lucy starts getting lost in the past, and hidden details and secrets are revealed. Meanwhile, in the present day, Lillian becomes more and more distraught as the weight of caregiving for a sister who frequently wanders away from home becomes increasingly overwhelming.
A parallel, secondary story has Ralph Meckler reminiscing with Crankshaft's grandson, Max, an aspiring musician, about how he met his wife Helen in New York City when he was starting his own career as a musician. Helen has been in assisted living for a long while, but Ralph is able to give her one last hurrah that celebrates the beginning of their love.
Both stories have a sweet melancholy, serving up romance leavened by the toll of dementia à la The Notebook.
The storytelling is a bit awkward due to the comic strip origins with every third panel needing to be a punchline and Crankshaft having to show up regularly and drop some of his signature malapropisms since he's the title character. Also, these strips were not consecutive in the comic strip's run, so the story skips around a bit randomly at times and the kid characters become teens without warning, but it still manages to stick together pretty well despite the necessary cobbling. If readers are unaware that Crankshaft is part of the Funky Winkerbean universe, they might be a little confused or lost when he and the gang from Montoni's Pizza gets involved in a minor little subplot.
I'm certainly not going to become a Crankshaft regular, but this does remind me that I should get back to reading the Complete Funky Winkerbean books that came out a while back.… (plus d'informations)