Comments on: Funky Winkerbean Character, Lisa Moore, to Pass Away October 4

By: OHLE KAJER

OHLE KAJER — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:55:43 +0000

My earlier postings of 10/4/97 and 10/7/07 noted my wife’s bout with cancer and the similarities to Lisa.
On August 22, 2008 cancer won and I lost my wife.

In a recent strip, Lisa shows up again as an inspiration to her husband by standing behind him. Unfortunately this does not happen physically, but I wouldn’t rule it out spiritually.

By: Herndon Murray

Herndon Murray — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:47:08 +0000

I thought you wanted to know who was actually inquiring about this and tho my wife, Paulette has tried to figure out what to do, I am the one inquiring since I’m the one who accidently trashed the papers.

Superhero girls, being there for dying person.

Thanks again
Herndon

By: Paulette Murray

Paulette Murray — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:40:41 +0000

To some people it may not seem important, to my wife it was. Please
help me if you can. Since we had no computer until 2 days ago, I have been trying to figure out how i can do this for her:

My wife saved the strip of funky winkerbean about the superhero’s coming in to stay with the lady(man), I don’t read he comic strips) who was dying. Her nieces had stayed with their dad from April until July tho he did not die of cancer it was not an easy time for them. She had tried to buy picture frames to put that particular issue in for months. (We live on SS only so it took a while) Non the less, when she went into our bedroom i had inadvertenly thrown them out. Is there any way you could help me with the dates the superhero’s (girls) came into the room and stayed with (not certain since i really don’t read comics but the girls had on capes, etc. All my wife wanted was to show these 2 girls how much she appreciated not only their love for her brother but the diligence they showed in caring for him all those months. i really messed up by accidentally throwing them away. Also my wife, her brother and I were with my brother in law the whole time, for at least two weeks at a time, trying to fill in for some respite for the girls. When she read this strip, she cried, knowing how much these grils did for her brother.

Thanks
Herndon

By: Pab Sungenis

Pab Sungenis — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:48:08 +0000

Danny, the great thing about unconsciousness is that you don’t realize it’s gone by. You won’t even dream. You’ll just close your eyes and wake up with the work done. Besides, this is your own body you’re talking about. Take it from me, you don’t want to watch them at work. When the reality hits you about what you’re seeing, you won’t want to see it any more.

As someone who lost a family member and two close friends (and may still lose a third) to cancer, you have my best wishes, and I hope you have a good support structure of friends and family to help you through the healing process.

By: Danny Rawinsky

Danny Rawinsky — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:54:52 +0000

On August 22 I got the lab results. Now I am a cancer patient. Before that day cancer had hit close to home but I never felt close to the word cancer. Two cousins and my father died of cancer and my mother had cancer and survived. I am going to have the da Vinci Robotic Prostatectomy in December. I am totally fascinated with the mechanics of robotic surgery. I want to see my prostate after it is removed but the doctor said he has to send it to pathology and it will be frozen and sliced up, there will be nothing left to see. I want a spinal block so I can be awake during the operation but I can’t have that either. I can’t watch it on the video monitor. I don’t my limp body laying on the operating table, me unconscious unable to know what is going deep inside of my body. I don’t want to be put under and have this done to me to remove my cancerous prostate. I have no symptoms, I feel don’t feel sick and the adenocarcinoma is not yet a tumor and cannot be felt. All I know is that my PSA is 4.9 and normal is 4.0 and 1 of 8 biopsy cores had 30% cancer. I cried when Lisa died. I would like to say that when the time comes that if my cancer is too widespread I will make the same choice as Lisa did.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:56:10 +0000

hey..i’m confused..i read this comic EVERY day, but the ten year fast-forward was a little whacked. why is Becky all of a sudden married to the Comix guy? where is Wally, her husband? is he dead? they don’t really explain any of this in the strip. would be easier for Becks just to get a prosthetic arm tho heh. great strip :)

By: Mary McNeil

Mary McNeil — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:35:51 +0000

The 10 year advance isn’t the first time this was done in Funky : right after graduation they all aged too, remember?What throws me a bit is the portrayal of Summer with her Dad in Central Park. How old was she when Lisa died? She looks well into her teens(like 18) in today’s strip. And I taught junior high for years, so I am not expecting her to still be in little kids clothes.

The “I Ching” hasn’t appeared in awhile either. But all my band director friends have now retired so I can’t speak to Harry’s retirement.

Batiuk is a local guy, and I remain a fan.And I watched my mother die of kidney cancer; there was a lot to identify with.

By: Mary McNeil

Mary McNeil — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:33:10 +0000

The “I Ching” hasn’t appeared in awhile either. But all my band director friends have now retired so I can’t speak to Harry’s retirement.

Batiuk is a local guy, and I remain a fan.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:49:35 +0000

My Aunt died of cancer just last year.

The shakes at the end are what jolted me the most, I was not there first hand, and they still jolted me. Just like Lisa at the end.

Today we jump 10 years.

Death is a part of life, we as a people continue.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:56:55 +0000

I admire Tom Batiuk for sharing with the world what watching a cancer patient die is like. My husband recently lost his battle with a rare form of sarcoma. He died at home with me by his side. Since his death occurred over a major holiday weekend, the hospice workers were not available, although they had prepared me well for what was to come. None of us expected it so soon. I cannot say enough good for hospice workeres–they were wonderful! They made my husband’s last few days bearable for both him and me. The naysayers above should have to spend a year or so watching their best friend and lover slowly waste away. Tom Bautick’s portrayal of Lisa and Les was very accurate–perhaps a bit bland in places, but accurate enough for those of us who have been there to appreciate his delivery of the subject. After you have sat with someone during weeks of 24-hour, 5 days a week intense chemo, 6 weeks of intense concentrated radiation, followed by mmore chemo, followed by the down days when the blood count is too low to take chemo, then he/she may criticize the cartoonist.