Category: Son of Stuck Funky

Here’s to the Death of Hope!

Happy Birthday Tom Batiuk!

I went back in my archives to see if ol Tom ever saddled one of his characters with his own birthday to celebrate. But I couldn’t find anyone with Pi Day, as their Cake Day. Really, I couldn’t find many places where he acknowledged the date even obliquely. Unless this Crankshaft strip from 2018 counts.

Look! An actually amusing Crankshaft strip! Happy Birthday, indeed!
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And we’re back… hello?

I got a lovely little newsletter last week from our favorite septuagenarian strip writer. One of the singular perks of being on the official mailing list. I thought I’d pass on the highlights, with CBH commentary.

[I have no idea why he starts off with this strip. But if I had to suffer through reading a random strip where Les is talking to an imaginary Dead St. Lisa, and smirking while fantasizing her criticizing his parenting, then I am definitely going to share the pain.]
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Is Tom Batiuk Really An Award-Winning Writer?

Poster Y. Knott and I have been talking about Tom Batiuk’s history of Pulitzer Prize nominations, and I need to correct the record about something.

Tom Batiuk was a genuine Pulitzer nominee once, in 2008, for the year of work when Lisa died. You can view the list of Pulitzer winners and Finalists for the Cartooning category at https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/215. He was not a finalist in 1987, which I’ve long incorrectly claimed he was. So that’s my fault, and I apologize to poster Y. Knott for not checking my facts first. I have a journalism background and I need to be better than that. Continue reading “Is Tom Batiuk Really An Award-Winning Writer?”