I’ve had to keep silent for a year about this little project for my pal Tom Batiuk.
About a year ago, I was approached by syndicated cartoonist Tom Batiuk to contribute to a special storyline in his long-running comic strip, “Funky Winkerbean”.
The story involves Funky’s wife Holly. Her son Cory is in Afghanistan and she’s looking to complete his comic book collection for him as a way of staying in touch. So, she’s decides to complete his collection of “Starbuck Jones” comics, which is a character Tom envisioned when he was a wee lad in the fifth grade.
It’s a fun concept and it was a blast for me to fall back to my “Wally Wood apprentice roots” for the project.
The seven artists who created covers for this project are Joe Staton, Terry Austin, Mike Gilbert, Neil Vokes, Mike Golden, Norm Breyfogle and myself.
