Tom Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean ( February 3, 2012 )

Funky Winkerbean is a popular long-run comic strip by Tom Batiuk ( pronounced " Battick ").

Centered at Westview High School, the strip initially focused on several students: Funky Winkerbean, Crazy Harry Klinghorn, Barry Balderman, " Bull " Bushka, Cindy Summers, Junebug, Roland, Livinia, Leslie P. " Les " Moore, majorette Holly Budd ( daughter of Melinda Budd, original majorette for Westview High ), and Lisa Crawford.

Though the titular everyman Funky Winkerbean was the ostensible main character, nerds Les Moore and Lisa Crawford became breakout characters and the primary focus of the strip.

The updated Funky Winkerbean cast from October 2007: ( l. to r .) Les Moore, Summer Moore, Donna Klinghorn, Maddie Klinghorn, " Crazy " Harry Klinghorn, Becky Blackburn Winkerbean-Howard, Rana Winkerbean, Linda Lopez-Bushka, Bull Bushka, Jinx Bushka, Funky Winkerbean, Cory Winkerbean, Holly Budd.

On October 21, 2007, Funky Winkerbean underwent its second " time warp ," this time jumping ahead to a point ten years following Lisa's death and aging the cast of characters accordingly ; those that were children are now high school age, and the original cast are in their mid-forties.

Wally Winkerbean — who had returned to Iraq before the relaunch — is not in the core cast as shown on the Funky Winkerbean website, and it was also revealed that Becky had remarried sometime in the 10 years between Lisa's death and the flash-forward.

During several flashback scenes, Funky had seen ( and in some cases, visited with ) teen-aged versions of himself, Crazy Harry and Holly Budd ( Funky's wife-to-be ), and a younger Mr. Dinkle-all as they appeared in Funky Winkerbean strips in the early 1980s.

The continuity of the Crankshaft strip is as much as 20 years behind that of Funky Winkerbean ; strips in both comics in August and September 2011 show Cayla Williams, a high school teacher and secretary to Principal Nate Green and Les ' fiancee, with Keisha her teenage daughter, to be a college-age student in the former.

Web comic Shortpacked produced a satirical strip in which most of the words of Funky Winkerbean characters ' dialogue are replaced by the word " cancer.

Over the week of July 7, 2008, Pearls Before Swine parodied the tendency of Funky Winkerbean towards killing off main characters when it killed off Rat and the strip's own author, Stephan Pastis ( the two would later be returned to the strip via the intervention of United Feature Syndicate ), even utilizing Batiuk's representation of the Angel of Death.

A year earlier Pastis had drawn a strip parodying the seemingly revolving door of changes in Lisa Moore's condition in Funky Winkerbean and actually got the blessing from Batiuk to run it.

In Funky Winkerbean, Les Moore wrote a book about Darling's murder and solved the case in a 1997 storyline.

There is a framed and signed Funky Winkerbean strip hung in the restaurant.

Clark is a publisher of the C. L. Barnhouse Company, and has published several Funky Winkerbean collections dedicated to the character of Harry L. Dinkle.

The relaunched Funky, Batiuk claimed, " is going to be a different strip, a little bit quieter.

In the July 12, 2009, strip, it is finally shown that Wally is alive and in full military uniform ; a backstory revealed that Funky had gotten a call from his ex-wife, Cindy, informing him that Wally was alive and that she had conducted an interview that was to air on the news that evening.

* Son of Stuck Funky, a blog offering a daily critique and commentary on the Funky Winkerbean comic strip

* Lisa Moore, a character in the American comic strip Funky Winkerbean

* The comic strip Funky Winkerbean made its debut, introduced by King Features Syndicate.

Funky (" just and average kid trying to figure out a confusing world ... not to mention plane geometry ") introduced himself and his friends, Roland, Les and Lavinia in the first day's strip.

* The comic strip Funky Winkerbean initially presented its lead characters as teenagers.

His best-known comic strip is Funky Winkerbean.

On the other hand, Funky Winkerbean dealt very critically with Intelligent Design, and two students in the strip even did a pro-evolution take-off on Johnny Hart's B. C.

Written by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Chuck Ayers, Crankshaft is a spin-off from Batiuk ’ s comic strip Funky Winkerbean.

The continuity of the strip is as much as twenty years behind that of Funky Winkerbean ; strips in both comics in August and September 2011 show a character in the latter strip, a high school teacher with a daughter of her own, as a college-age student in the former.

John Darling was originally a supporting character in Batiuk's strip Funky Winkerbean.

While Darling is rarely mentioned in Funky Winkerbean, Darling's daughter Jessica used to appear as a regular in the Funky Winkerbean strip until the 2007 timeskip.

Charles presented the virtual reality game show Cyberzone ( 1993 ) on BBC2 ; the late-night entertainment show Funky Bunker ( 1997 ) on ITV ; the reality television show Jailbreak ( 2000 ) on Channel 5 ; and the late-night chat show Weapons of Mass Distraction ( 2004 ) on ITV.

The instrumental arrangements on tracks such as " Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose " and " Licking Stick-Licking Stick " ( both recorded in 1968 ) and " Funky Drummer " ( recorded in 1969 ) featured a more developed version of Brown's mid-1960s style, with the horn section, guitars, bass and drums meshed together in intricate rhythmic patterns based on multiple interlocking riffs.

Staying on the beat is central to rap's flow – many MCs note the importance of staying on-beat in How to Rap including Sean Price, Mighty Casey, Zion I, Vinnie Paz, Fredro Starr, Del The Funky Homosapien, Tech N9ne, People Under The Stairs, Twista, B-Real, Mr Lif, 2Mex, and Cage.

Funky was based on a Joe Cocker piano sample later used as the basis for Dr. Dre and Tupac's California Love.

The opening theme is based on the Clyde Stubblefield-performed Funky drummer drum break sample.

In 1975, Jasper Carrott released The Magic Roundabout ( originally featured on his first live LP Jasper Carrot – In the Club ), a short, risqué comic monologue parodying the children's TV series, as the B-side of a 7 inch single, featuring his comic song " Funky Moped " on the A-side.

Though Wilson was present for the Dutch recordings, he yielded to his bibulous tendencies ( primarily hashish and hard cider ) and rarely participated, confining himself to work on " Funky Pretty " ( a collaboration with Mike Love and the band's manager, Jack Rieley ), a one-line sung intro to Al Jardine's " California Saga: California ", and " Mount Vernon and Fairway ( A Fairy Tale )", a children's narrative suite musically inspired by Randy Newman's Sail Away that was promptly rejected by the band ; eventually, Carl Wilson capitulated and ensured that the suite would be released as a bonus EP with the album.

In 1954 the first Lotus Cars factory was established behind the Railway Hotel ( now Funky Brownz Bar ) on Tottenham Lane.

With the Funky powers of the Bop Gun ( which are augmented by the Flash Light .... Shine the light on them suckas !!!

Sir Nose ’ s last appearance is on Trombipulation ( 1979 ), where he traces his ancestry back to the Cro-Nasal Sapiens, who were especially Funky, leading Sir Nose to reclaim his Funky heritage, along with his son, Sir Nose Jr.

" Funky Dollar Bill " ( off the same album ) describes multiple unFunky priorities, all revolving around materialism and consumerism, which have taken over all that is good and true in society ( including, on " Eulogy and Light ", religion ).

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch released their debut album, Music for the People on July 23, 1991.

* September 11 – The Funky Phantom premieres on ABC Saturday Morning ( 1971 – 1972 ).

The first few songs, " Blow Your Whistle " ( September 1973 ) and " Sound Your Funky Horn " ( February 1974 ), were released as singles, and did well enough on the U. S. R & B chart and overseas that TK wanted a follow up single and album.

* In the Funky Koval comic series, most events take place on 2080's Earth which is very similar to our own.

During the Funky Nassau number, Marco asks to cut in on keyboards, which Murph allows.

Some of the recurring characters LaMarr performed on MADtv were Desperation Lee (" Funky Walker Dirty Talker "), Jaq the UBS Guy, " sexy player " Rick, talentless R & B singer Savante and Rocket Revengers star Lieutenant Abraham Jefferson ( a. k. a. Lincoln Willis ).

Bigby cowrote " Funky is the Drummer ", recorded by Joe Walsh and Michael Stanley on the Friend and Legends album.

Her first solo album release in Europe on Musisoft ( Paris France ) All My Funky Friends, December 2000, sold thousands of units, and was hailed by Tower Records ( 2001 ) as the only authentic funk album to be released in over two decades.