Help! Melodramatic Funky Winkerbean annoys me, yet I must read!

Do you have any idea how funny this is? I am wildly jealous; I wish I was in a Funky Winkerbean musical. I am adding something to my list of things to do before I die list.
Anyway–Funky Winkerbean is still around?
“Look kids! Funky Winkerbean! And the Noid!”