![]() Here the setting was the Old West, with the characters the hapless Army post, the hapless Poohawk tribe, the hapless cowboys, the hapless townsfolk. It was one of your situation strips, of a kind with B.C., The Wizard of Id, and Hagar the Horrible. I don’t know when the shift, or why, although the advantages of typing your word balloons are obvious.īut I don’t have strong memories of the characters or the jokes or such. Instead of a typeface that looked like hand-lettering, Ryan used … well, I thought it was Monaco, but looking at examples on the official Tumbleweeds web site indicate he used different typefaces at different times. It would stand out today still, when many comic strips use computer lettering. It stood out mostly for typography: it had computer-lettered word balloons. The newspaper was great, in those days, for finding comic strips that just weren’t in any local newspaper, like Bill Holbrook’s On The Fastrack and Safe Havens, or Bobby London’s Popeye, or even the Pogo revival. It was one of the many comics printed in Strips, a weekly newspaper featuring just what you’d think. I admit I don’t have strong memories of the comic. ![]() He was 92 years old, and the death was peaceful, the funeral home reports. Tom K Ryan, who drew the longrunning comic strip Tumbleweeds, died a couple weeks ago. ![]()
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