The main character is a dog, apparently modeled after Winston Churchill (hence his name), living with a husband-and-wife couple and a cat named Garbonzo. The strip was most likely created to cash in on the "Garfield" fad, which took off in the '80s.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Winston
Winston is a comic strip by Jim Burnett (writer) and Johnny Sajem (artist) that ran in newspapers 1985 to 1987. It was syndicated by News America Syndicate, which later became North America Syndicate (itself bought by King Features).
The main character is a dog, apparently modeled after Winston Churchill (hence his name), living with a husband-and-wife couple and a cat named Garbonzo. The strip was most likely created to cash in on the "Garfield" fad, which took off in the '80s.
The main character is a dog, apparently modeled after Winston Churchill (hence his name), living with a husband-and-wife couple and a cat named Garbonzo. The strip was most likely created to cash in on the "Garfield" fad, which took off in the '80s.
yeah the Garfield fad certainly brought imitators (again, I always think back to Tom Armstrong's "Marvin" myself, at least that one managed to keep chugging along).
ReplyDeleteCharlie Brubaker,
ReplyDeleteWe cannot forget that Johnny Sajem also produced another comic strip: The Evermores, which he and Mort Walker created in 1982 and was carried on the newspapers from the whole world until 1986. This strip was distributed by King Features.
I loved this when it reached me in India a year later..as much as I disliked Garfield. Gives you an idea about how I feel about dogs and cats ;)
ReplyDeleteWas this put out into book form? Wish the owners would just put up all the cartoons on the net...one a day. I, for one, would love to read them again