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"Funky Winkerbean" & Chicago Coin Band Box
By Mark Kinsler

> On Wednesday, April 29th, the Akron Beacon Journal ran a feature
> story about the comic strip "Funky Winkerbean" and it's ties to the
> Akron area.  The article discussed how the Band Box recently
> featured in the comic strip's pizza shop is based on the Band Box
> still at Luigi's Restaurant in Akron.  The print editions included
> a great picture of the band box.

We read F. Winkerbean daily, and we could _not_ figure out what the
heck a "Band Box" was supposed to be.  It just sort of looked like
a cabinet that the guy fixed up.  So what, exactly, is it?  I assume,
from the context of this last posting, that it's some sort of
attachment to a jukebox that contains animated characters.

In general, there's no way to find out more about incomprehensible
comic strips, though there is a fellow who maintains a Web page
entitled "Comics I don't understand."

Mark Kinsler
Athens, Ohio, USA.
http://www.frognet.net/~kinsler


(Message sent Thu 30 Apr 1998, 16:15:53 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Band, Box, Chicago, Coin, Funky, Winkerbean

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