# Funky Winkerbean—Where is "Westview," exactly?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 19, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660 "2009-04-19T22:15:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/1 "2009-04-19T22:15:35Z")
About the newspaper comic, of course, and the small town that’s the setting of the strip. I believe it’s supposed to be in Ohio, but has there ever been any more specific details in the strip as to where (i.e., a character mentioning it’s a half-hour’s drive from Columbus, or is a suburb of Akron, something)?
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/2 "2009-04-20T00:46:32Z")
It’s definitely in the general vicinity of Cleveland: Everyone’s a fan of Cleveland sports teams and nobody of Cincinnati, and there have been some scenes set in recognizable spots of the Metroparks, Downtown, or other Cleveland locations.
Myself, I always picture it as a sort of amalgamation of Lakewood and Westlake, though it’s probably further south than that.
And while we’re at it, _Calvin and Hobbes_ and _Ziggy_ were also set in the Cleveland area.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/3 "2009-04-20T03:38:38Z")
Westwood is in a suburb of Hell. This is amply demonstrated by the fact that Tom Batiuk is Satan, at least for his characters.
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/4 "2009-04-20T04:23:05Z")
> [@jayjay](#):
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> Westwood is in a suburb of Hell. This is amply demonstrated by the fact that Tom Batiuk is Satan, at least for his characters.
Certainly for Lisa and Wally. We never have found out exactly what happened to him.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/5 "2009-04-20T05:00:34Z")
Crankshaft seems to do OK, though. I think he’s just too ornery to die (or retire, or go senile).
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/6 "2009-04-20T05:19:18Z")
Westview is located above a toxic waste dump, downstream from a nuclear power plant and under an enormous cluster of power lines.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/7 "2009-04-20T11:59:44Z")
> [@photopat](#):
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> Certainly for Lisa and Wally. We never have found out exactly what happened to him.
Funky himself just got a callback from his doctor’s office to schedule a followup because they noticed something strange about his prostate. Les’s stalker from high school is back and working at the high school with him.
Lisa and Wally were just the beginning…
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/8 "2009-04-20T12:35:25Z")
I think it’s more like Medina. Tom Batiuk was born in Akron and went to Kent State University. Montoni’s is absolutely based on Luigi’s in downtown Akron, right down to the animated bandbox.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/9 "2009-04-20T14:25:12Z")
I always thought of it as a distant southwest suburb of Cleveland. Near Medina sounds about right.
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/10 "2009-04-20T18:33:13Z")
He spent a good part of his formative years in Elyria. A girl I went to college with had him as her junior high school art teacher there, so I always picture Westview as the Elyria/Lorain area.
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### Author:  [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funky-winkerbean-where-is-westview-exactly/493660/11 "2009-04-20T19:20:18Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#):
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> Westview is located above a toxic waste dump, downstream from a nuclear power plant and under an enormous cluster of power lines.
_/choie shakes fist at **Snooooopy** for beating her to the punchline about cancer clusters._