Tumbleweeds was a popular long-run comic strip which offered a skewed perspective on life in the Old West. Writer-artist Tom K. Ryan (1926 - ) (who signed the strip "T. K. Ryan"), was very familiar with conventions of the Western genre he satirized. Launched September 1975, the strip was distributed for decades by King Features Syndicate.
Jim Davis, who created Garfield, was Ryan's assistant (from 1969 to 1978) while developing another strip, Gno...
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Tumbleweeds was a popular long-run comic strip which offered a skewed perspective on life in the Old West. Writer-artist Tom K. Ryan (1926 - ) (who signed the strip "T. K. Ryan"), was very familiar with conventions of the Western genre he satirized. Launched September 1975, the strip was distributed for decades by King Features Syndicate.
Jim Davis, who created Garfield, was Ryan's assistant (from 1969 to 1978) while developing another strip, Gnorm Gnat.
After a 32-year run, Ryan retired and brought Tumbleweeds to a conclusion on December 30, 2007.
Tumbleweeds is set in and around the town of Grimy Gulch, in an unspecified Western territory. Other locations include the nearby village of the Poohawk tribe of Native Americans, and the US Army outpost Fort Ridiculous, which is manned by the 6 7/8 Cavalry.
Tumbleweeds was to be one of the strips animated in Filmation's 1978 series The Fabulous Funnies (along with Broom-Hilda, Nancy, Alley Oop and others) and was included in the series'...
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