18 thoughts on “A Ghostly Premonition”

  1. At least he isn’t as bad as Lynn Johnston. Towards the end, John and Elly were interchangeable.

    1. Towards the end, all indications are that Lynn was still doing her own work, and not via the ctrl-C ctrl-V functions in Photoshop.

      1. On the other hand, the characters eyes don’t blink in the CS strips. That always creeped me out on the FOOB site.

    2. Thing I found out, while trying to figure out who won the Pulitzer for comics over Les Whines A Lot–SPOILER: It sure wasn’t someone in Lorain County!–Johnston won once.

      The reason I didn’t know this was that she’s never mentioned it. Or, at least, not spent two goddamn decades whining that she didn’t get a SECOND one.

      And you know who would, if he actually had won.

      1. Lynn Johnston never won a Pulitzer Prize. However, she was a finalist (i.e. one of two runners-up) in 1994.

        The only cartoonists who have won Pulitzer Prizes primarily for work on comic strips are Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) and Berke Breathed (Bloom County). Other cartoonists who have done comic strips have won the Pulitzer, but for their editorial cartooning work, not their strips.

        1. I’m quite happy to be proven wrong!

          She was nominated, didn’t win, and…did not spend decades whining about it. My respect for her just went up!

          Okay, the strip got weird at its end. Did it get “humanity is our government, says Time Traveling Janitor With Crank’s Rotting Nose” weird?

          2. At least Johnston wrapped up her strip nicely at the end…FW was just off the charts bad. WTF was Batty thinking? I think he was just mad his strip got canceled.

          3. Johnston didn’t want to make being a bored housewife into Humanity’s nation. She just wanted Elly to think that motherhood was worth the effort.

    1. Actually, “life in artist’s prison” probably compares quite favorably what Davis is doing now for Crankshaft…

      1. What comic is this?

        I’d try to figure it out using this newfangled thing “Ask Jeeves,” but I’m 94. Wait! I’m 90! OH GOD, I’M ONE AND NOT POTTY TRAINED YET!

        Now…now I can only read Marvin.

        1. This is a tie-in comic for one of the Disney Saturday Morning cartoons on ABC around the 21st century turn, “Pepper Ann” it was called.

          1. Yes indeed. Specifically, this and other One Saturday Morning tie-in comics (from several different shows that aired on the block) appeared in the old Disney Adventures digest magazine in the late 90s and early 2000s. A large number of these comics were issued in a fancy hard-cover collection that was released last year that may or may not have been the only thing I asked for for Christmas…

            This particular comic was written by Allison Heartinger (who had a brief run writing for DC’s Looney Tunes title around this time) and illustrated by Stephanie Gladden (who was a storyboard artist for Pepper Ann as well as a regularly employed comic artist and continues to work in the industry today).

  3. Well this is quite the clip-art twist to wake up to. The question is though, was the guy in those baseball strips positively identified as Pop Clutch? Based on the recap CBH provided last September (Poppin’ and Lockin’ | Son of Stuck Funky), for the most part Clutch was described in past tense and at least retired from his audacious bus-driving career (with one off-mention of being murdered by hearing aids, though that could be Cranky’s exaggerations). It’s a little redundant to ask since baseball in the Funkyverse is so flexible with Cranky’s timeline for playing and the merger of the two black ballplayers, but is there any precedent for Pop Clutch to even want to be part of a baseball team?

    Either way, some livelier things to talk about than the rate of today’s Crankshaft, which is almost to the point of just repeating scenes from earlier in the week with the first panel alone. And the Batiuk blog is a bit bland too; the newest Match to Flame is a single reposted paragraph just talking candidly about how Les’s book publishing journey is an out-and-out novelization of Batiuk’s process with the IRL book, down to the joke about KSU looking past his old grades.

  4. It’s never said often enough that your clip art matching prowess is superhuman.

    The one that gave it most directly away to me was the second strip there, with the “christmas carol”/”bottom of the barrel” lines. That facial expression and composition is what keyed it in. It’s asked repeatedly, but I still have to wonder how Ayers feels about the reuse without his name being presented on the reruns.

  5. Both Yesterday and Today’s Funky Crankerbean:

    Where was the action? It was nothing but boredom everywere in this arc

  6. Today’s Funky Crankerbean:

    Oh fuck not another of this Jfff/Starfuck jones nonsense

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