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

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.

In the Funky Winkerbean strip published on September 30, 2007, Les essentially echoes the Crankshaft comment.

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.

On " Ain't it Funky " ( c. late 1960s ), and " Give it Up or Turn it Lose " ( 1969 ), the tonal structure is bare bones.

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.

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

One of the most famous Bolden numbers is a song called " Funky Butt " ( known later as " Buddy Bolden's Blues "), which represents one of the earliest references to the concept of " funk " in popular music, now a musical subgenre unto itself.

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 ).

Next to Twilo is Funky Dojo with DJs regularly playing both club and house music.

These include Funky Kong who makes his return from the original Donkey Kong Country, as well as Cranky Kong, situated in " Monkey Museum ", who is back due to " popular demand " to divulge secrets of the game world, provide comic relief as well as offering paid for advice.

Funky Kong is the last character the player can view after the first battle with the first boss.

With these coins, each Kong is allowed to buy essential combat items: Cranky Kong's special ability potions, Funky Kong's guns, and Candy Kong's musical instruments ( as well as upgrades of the same ).

Further successes with " Sing Baby Sing ", " Na Na is the Saddest Word ", " Funky Weekend " and " Can't Help Falling in Love " consolidated the group's European popularity.

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

* 1970: Everything I Play is Funky

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

What is typically forgotten in narrative histories of hip-hop as in the history of this film were the appearances of pioneering artists like Sha-Rock who was a member of Enjoy recording group The Funky Four Plus One More, later known as Funky 4 + 1.

* A 1992 song by the group Black 47 is titled " Funky Céilí ".

A sentence that is helpful to remember the steps sequence in the xerographic process is: Can I Eric Do The Funky Chicken Dance?

His groove on James Brown's " Funky Drummer " is believed to be the world's most sampled record.

Teren Delvon Jones ( born August 12, 1972 ), better known as Del the Funky Homosapien or Del tha Funkee Homosapien, is an American underground hip hop MC.

What was formerly the Belmont ( and later The Spanish Arch ) pub is now ' Funky Browns ', a bar / restaurant serving authentic Indian food.

* Alcoholism — The story of Funky's struggle with alcoholism and recovery was compiled by Tom Batiuk in the book My Name is Funky and I'm an Alcoholic.

The " Funky Butt " song was one of many in the Bolden repertory with rude or off-color lyrics popular in some of the rougher places Bolden played, and Bolden's trombonist Willy Cornish claimed authorship.

Other popular breaks are from James Brown's " Funky Drummer " and " Give it Up or Turnit a Loose ", The Incredible Bongo Band's " Apache ", and Lyn Collins ' " Think ( About It )".

Funky rock-based bands like Voltage Four, Woodenstool and Every Mother's Child became popular.

It inspired dances such as the Jerk, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, the Monkey and the Funky Chicken, although none were as popular.

The disco single, " Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose " was popular in dance clubs.

2 on the Billboard popular music chart in May, and was covered by Jermaine Jackson ( 1972 ), Toots and the Maytals ( Funky Kingston 1973 ), Junior English, and Cliff Richard ( 1981 ).

As " Funky Jan ", Jan is soon the most popular rock star on the planet while the oblivious Daniel is left out in the cold.