Cease and Desist

Read it and weep. I did. Click to enlarge

Well, now we know why sonofstuckfunky.wordpress.com (and stuckfunky.wordpress.com) got the plug pulled. Here is the letter that Batiuk’s lawyers sent to the WordPress.com folks. They are not happy with the “unauthorized use of the Funky Winkerbean name, trademark, or comic strips” on the site. They go on to ask the WordPress people to provide them with my name, address, and email address.

I’m still reeling from having the plug pulled, then was feeling great about being able to move the blog so quickly. Now I’m feeling pretty anxious. I don’t have a lawyer, I (obviously) don’t have a deep knowledge of copyright, and really don’t need to get sued.

This turn of events ought to tell you everything you need to know about Tom Batiuk’s sense of humor.

I will collect my thoughts and decide on the course of action going forward. In the meantime, thank you, friends, for your support.

Stay Funky.

TFH

The Knights of Knee

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20110212&name=Funky_Winkerbean

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TB, if you are gonna use the exact same setup for two strips about three weeks  apart, then yeah, I’m gonna mash them up in Photoshop and make fun of your work. The players have forfeited a first-round tournament game to go hang in the ER with their injured co-cap’n (and um, shouldn’t she have some ice on that thing?) And co-cap’n, rather than ream out this bunch of quitters, is only too content to lie back and bask in the adulation.

Hello world! Bite me, WordPress.com!

We are back live, hope you are too. Apparently I violated WordPress.com’s terms of service, and they yanked the plug on the old site.

I was able to import all the content from the old site. It’s going to take a little time twisting the knobs and restoring all the settings. One thing I’ve learned so far is that Akismet, a great spam-comment-blocker, is only free when you host your blog on wordpress.com…When I went to activate it on this knew site, I found out I have to pay for a “key”. So you may see the occasional spam comment (you’ll know which ones are spam, trust me). I’ll do my best to stay on top of those.

I’m still restoring the links that appear on the right hand side of this page, along with the rest of the widgets that I had lovingly arranged on the old site.

A very sincere “thank you” to the SoSF regulars who emailed me to find out what was going on when the site went down! It meant a lot to me.

Back to the snark…

Quit One for the Gimper

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20110211&name=Funky_Winkerbean

Oh, no they din’t.

This absurd turn of events could be construed either as a display of solidarity with their fallen co-captain, or more likely as the rest of the team realizing that without Sum’ Mo’, they don’t have a chance of winning anyway. Neither scenario makes any sense: this is a tournament game. What the hell happened to “Win one for the Gipper“? And Bull, their eunuch of a coach, is going to stand by slack-jawed as they sashay out of the gym. Boy, Westview’s athletic director is going to have his ass…oh, wait:  Bull is the athletic director.