Batiuk, 60, is a prostate cancer survivor. He learned about his disease in 2003 and underwent successful treatment. He knows what's going through Lisa's mind, because all those dark thoughts crossed ...

Crankshaft and the now retired Funky Winkerbean comic strips are both from the Tom Batiuk, with Dan Davis sharing a byline on the former. Crankshaft was a spin-off from the high school-aged Funky ...

Despite e-mails from readers asking him to save her, Funky Winkerbean creator Tom Batiuk says the comic strip character Lisa Moore will succumb to breast cancer. Batiuk, 60, himself a cancer survivor, ...