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"The Best of Tumbleweeds" by T.K. Ryan

"For the past 28 years a legion of loyal readers has taken delight in the hilarious antics of Hildegard Hamhocker, Limpid Lizard and other outrageous residents of Grimy Gulch, brought to life every day in Tom K. Ryan's spoof of the Old West, Tumbleweeds. Now die-hard fans and newcomers alike can enjoy the best installments of the wildly, wickedly, funny popular comic strip in this riotous 140 page collection."Midwest Book Review

"The Best of Tumbleweeds" by TK Ryan
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A laconic little cowpoke, who'd rather be someplace other than Grimy Gulch but, not noted for his ambition, and having nowhere better to go, calls the place home. He's sort of an average guy, surrounded by a bunch of characters culled from Central Casting's Oaters div. and various Used-hombre Lots, that make up the town's citizenry and nearby Poohawk tribe. Tumbleweed's horse 'Epic', which he acquired from a surplus cavalry store, is an independent, illtempered, tobacco-chewing (occassionally does cigars) wreck, that was drummed out of the Army for spitting on the Top sarge. Though easy-going, the Weed does sometimes flare up in disgust and indignation, but soon calms down. He's usually content to tumble along where the winds of human foibles blow him.

140 Pages, 10 x 8-1/2", 12 color pages, heavy enamel stock cover, Signed by TK Ryan himself!
Thomas K. Ryan Tumbleweeds Creator
A controversial Figure from the beginning, Ryan was born in either Anderson or Muncie, Indiana...Anderson claiming it was Muncie...Muncie it was Anderson.
He first felt drawn (note pun) to cartooning at the age of nine; the illness was to remain with him for the rest of his days.

After a spectacularly lackluster stint at a local high-school, he burst forth, as from a cocoon, to meet life's challenge.

Three years of University life ensued (Notre Dame U. 1...U. of Cincinnati 2), when eager and equipped to plumb the frontiers of obscurity, Ryan was spit forth upon the shores of the Real World.

Setting his master plan in motion, he promptly took upon himself the burden of a wife and children, then set out to find ways to feed them.

After a series of jobs, too trivial to list here, he landed one in commercial art, cut a wide swathe through its magic world, and ended up free-lancing.

THEN ILLNESS STRUCK! Clingin doggedly (a pet dog helped see him through these days) to life, he bedded down with a Zane Grey western novel, fell madly in love with it, and after a pregnancy of six years, gave birth to TUMBLEWEEDS.

A spirited little rascal, the strip sprouted under the doting eyes of its proud papa, destined to be fawned upon by dozens. Even the crusty old NCS (National Cartoonists Soc.) gave it a couple of nods of recognition, and publishers chronicled it in a number of books.

TUMBLEWEEDS is Ryan's account of the Cowboys-and-indians thing..the untold story, from suppressed archives, of The Old West..the Epic Saga that inspired those immortal words of Buffalo Bill:"Go figure".

The Artist still plies his humble trade from a home in Florida, that legendary land where The Seminoles still dream of achieving full Noles.