A few weeks ago my sister received the news that the lump the doctor removed was indeed cancer. Sigh… we all cried for her, with her as she was once again under the knife. At the young age of 19 years she was diagnosed with Hodgkins. She won that battle. She thought the fight was gone as she was going to celebrate her 25th year of remission with all her different groups of friends.

When she was first told that she had cancer again she was only going to have one breast removed. The next day after hours of thinking and reviewing the options she firmly decided to have both removed. Wow! What a soldier she is. (She was in the Air Force during the first Gulf War.) I have talked to her and she is doing great. She is one who never hides the results. I may be 10 yrs older but she is my hero. Her friends have rallied around her. Giving her the best support system I have ever seen. So… Lisa died but she gave a foundation to build on. As Tiny Tim said… God bless us all everyone!!

A few weeks ago my sister received the news that the lump the doctor removed was indeed cancer. Sigh… we all cried for her, with her as she was once again under the knife. At the young age of 19 years she was diagnosed with Hodgkins. She won that battle. She thought the fight was gone as she was going to celebrate her 25th year of remission with all her different groups of friends.

When she was first told that she had cancer again she was only going to have one breast removed. The next day after hours of thinking and reviewing the options she firmly decided to have both removed. Wow! What a soldier she is. (She was in the Air Force during the first Gulf War.) I have talked to her and she is doing great. She is one who never hides the results. I may be 10 yrs older but she is my hero. Her friends have rallied around her. Giving her the best support system I have ever seen. So… Lisa died but she gave a foundation to build on. As Tiny Tim said… God bless us all everyone!!

I appreciated your story of Lisa’s bout with cancer.

I appreciated your story of Lisa’s bout with cancer.

If Tom Batiuk is really “lowering” his game to Stern’s level, we’re in for some great toons!

If Tom Batiuk is really “lowering” his game to Stern’s level, we’re in for some great toons!

I was fine with your strip staying on the comics page. Fine. Mary Worth and Family Circus were never a comic for me in the definition of the word: funny. Neither was yours, but maybe there are others out there that read it for the comedy which I cannot find. Each to his own.

But when you take it down from funny to truly depressing, you should be ripped off the page, immediately. 25 years of comic reading, that I can remember, and not once did I ever think FW was worth reading for its purpose. Now, it’s worth less. This is the comics page – people do not come here to be reminded of their own tragedy and pain. It is not the venue you are using it to be. Real life and modern society can remind us more than we could ever want of what can cause us physical and emotional pain. You are using the equivalent of using Looney Tunes as a forum to discuss abortions. Those two should never mix, no matter how much you think it may be.

Before you open your mouth, I watched my father-in-law wither away from lung cancer and I fear everyday that my wife will come to the same fate. This is not ignorance is bliss; I am fully aware of cancer and its effects on the victims and their loved ones.

I don’t need to be reminded of it while I’m trying to read the new Dilbert or Get Fuzzy. This whole scenario, as is all of your other ‘groundbreaking’ storylines, reek of shock value for more readers. Attention keeps you in business when your strip has no other redeeming qualities. 35 years has run you pretty thin, it seems. You are lowering yourself to the level of a high and mighty Howard Stern, for that reason, maybe you should pack up shop while you’re ahead.

Sadly, Bill Amend closed up the dailies business and gave room to a new strip in news papers across the country. Don’t you think it’s time you do the same? Whatever story you still have to tell, save it. I am sure you are devising some new hot button issue to exploit for readership. Do me a favor, before Funkito Winkerbeano the illegal immigrant joins the band, retire. Quickly.

I was fine with your strip staying on the comics page. Fine. Mary Worth and Family Circus were never a comic for me in the definition of the word: funny. Neither was yours, but maybe there are others out there that read it for the comedy which I cannot find. Each to his own.

But when you take it down from funny to truly depressing, you should be ripped off the page, immediately. 25 years of comic reading, that I can remember, and not once did I ever think FW was worth reading for its purpose. Now, it’s worth less. This is the comics page – people do not come here to be reminded of their own tragedy and pain. It is not the venue you are using it to be. Real life and modern society can remind us more than we could ever want of what can cause us physical and emotional pain. You are using the equivalent of using Looney Tunes as a forum to discuss abortions. Those two should never mix, no matter how much you think it may be.

Before you open your mouth, I watched my father-in-law wither away from lung cancer and I fear everyday that my wife will come to the same fate. This is not ignorance is bliss; I am fully aware of cancer and its effects on the victims and their loved ones.

I don’t need to be reminded of it while I’m trying to read the new Dilbert or Get Fuzzy. This whole scenario, as is all of your other ‘groundbreaking’ storylines, reek of shock value for more readers. Attention keeps you in business when your strip has no other redeeming qualities. 35 years has run you pretty thin, it seems. You are lowering yourself to the level of a high and mighty Howard Stern, for that reason, maybe you should pack up shop while you’re ahead.

Sadly, Bill Amend closed up the dailies business and gave room to a new strip in news papers across the country. Don’t you think it’s time you do the same? Whatever story you still have to tell, save it. I am sure you are devising some new hot button issue to exploit for readership. Do me a favor, before Funkito Winkerbeano the illegal immigrant joins the band, retire. Quickly.