Tom Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean October strips are the basis for a story line about a longtime Winkerbean character who commits suicide while suffering from the effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (or CTE), a degenerative neurological disease caused by repeated head injuries and found in athletes and military veterans. The story line is the focus of a New York Times article published earlier this month.
Tragedy coming to ‘Funky Winkerbean’ character
Spoiler alert: Comic strip story line will end with the death of a character