# What's up with Funky Winkerbean?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 16, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679 "2003-05-16T14:24:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@riserius1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/riserius1)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679/1 "2003-05-16T14:24:41Z")
Having read Funky Winkerbean for over 20 years now, I can’t help but notice that recently the artwork has changed, mostly for the better. It used to be a lot more cartoony, but now seems to have a much better eye for detail and composition.
Anyone know if Tom Batiuk is still drawing it, or did he suddenly decide to go back to Art School?(Not that he was a poor artist to begin with).
Chris W
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679/2 "2003-05-16T14:33:46Z")
It’s under discussion in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=178902) thread.
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679/3 "2003-05-16T17:22:38Z")
There was a sequence involving Les and Lisa that I’m sure was drawn by somebody else; neither Batiuk or Byrne, but now they’re back to Becky and-John, is it?- The comic book store owner. Byrne definitely drew these strips.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679/4 "2003-05-16T19:31:16Z")
forget who is drawing it… who is writing it?
john has two dates with becky and he is gonna propose!!???!!
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### Author:  [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679/5 "2003-05-16T20:00:12Z")
Yeah, that seems a bit…rushed.
I think maybe the point is going to be that he comes from a screwed up home and doesn’t have much experience with women, so he’s rushing into things.
Maybe?
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### Author:  [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679/6 "2003-05-16T21:08:26Z")
Well, it’s not like he doesn’t know her. It’s just that he didn’t think she would be interested in him like that until now.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-funky-winkerbean/175679/7 "2003-05-17T01:40:27Z")
i can understand fast relationships, my parents married after knowing each other for 10 days.
2 dates just seems very odd. john seems to have jumped into a completely different star system. he has totally transformed his clothes and hair; he has sold comic books he has had for years, a rack set that had deep meaning for him, to buy a ring for becky. i have been dreading him asking her because i can see a horrible fall. warning bells have been pealing like crazy.
although a wrench has been thrown into the works today, so perhaps things will slow down a bit.
this comic strip sure has been hitting some rather tough issues.