734: Funky Winkerfield
| Funky Winkerfield |
 Made by: Colin Foster |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This edit puts two Funky Winkerbean panels in the strip, making it seem like Garfield tuned into Funky Winkerbean by flipping through channels. The author critiques the state of Funky Winkerbean around the timeframe their strip first ran; Funky Winkerbean has since concluded, with its characters later appearing in the ongoing (as of this writing) spinoff strip Crankshaft. The author's notes include a link to The Comics Curmudgeon that features the original Funky Winkerbean strip, and one that once included a Shortpacked! comic mocking Funky Winkerbean's cancer-related storylines.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
Funky Winkerbean used to be a light-hearted comic strip about high schoolers. Then, as the artist grew older, he decided to skip ahead a few years and change the setting from high school into something between purgatory and hell. Cancer hangs over everyone's heads (and has even killed off one of the characters so far), terrible things happen to the main characters, everyone's miserable, and for some reason the strip still has a silly name.
I wanted to insert Garfield into a Funky Winkerbean comic, but found the strip has overly detailed art which would be too much trouble to fix up. This was the next best thing.
Original Funky Cancercancer strip: 2010-07-25 (can be seen here).
Original strip: 2004-03-31.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
SFX: click {Garfield clicks the TV remote}
{static}
Funky: I used to go years without stuff like this happening to me...
Funky: And now it happens to me every five minutes!
{static}
Garfield: Oops, sorry. I had the remote set on comic strip.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The link to "Funky Cancercancer" no longer works; it has been archived here.
