"Funky Winkerbean" comic strip character is killed off, prompting discussion. Oct. 15, 2007 — -- Lisa Moore is dead. She died last week from breast cancer and some people around the country are ...

MEDINA, Ohio — 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 ...

Funky Winkerbean is an awful, awful, so-bad-it’s-good comic strip, one that tries vainly to impart depth by having every character suffer from cancer, post-traumatic stress, alcoholism, loss of limbs ...

"Funky Winkerbean" character Lisa Moore can blame her breast cancer's return, in part, on strip creator Tom Batiuk's real-life bout with prostate cancer. The "emotional landscape" of the times led to ...

I thought this was interesting. Just as we were delving into the topic of biracial relationships because of "the kiss" in a recent edition of GO! magazine, Funky Winkerbean -- the comic strip -- was ...